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

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

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

The trouble is that my heart is loath to be without love even for a single hour. ... If you want to keep me forever, then show as much friendship as love, and more than anything else, love me and tell me the truth.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.