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

bad news travels faster than good.

You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

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

I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.

Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'