I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.