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.'

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

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

Your wits make others witty.

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