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

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.'

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.

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

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

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.

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.