In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.