It Is Better To Inspire

Assuredly Men Of Merit Are Never Lacking At Any Time, For Those Are The Men Who Manage Affairs, And It Is Affairs That Produce The Men. I Have Never Searched, And I Have Always Found Under My Hand The Men Who Have Served Me, And For The Most Part I Have Been Well Served.

One Does Not Always Do The Best There Is. One Does The Best One Can.

If Russians Knew How To Read, They Would Write Me Off.

What Right Can Give Anyone Authority To Inflict Torture Upon A Citizen When It Is Still Unknown Whether He Is Innocent Or Guilty?

To Tempt And Be Tempted Are Closely Allied; And In Spite Of All The Finest Moral Maxims Buried In The Mind, When Emotion Interferes, When Feeling Makes Its Appearance, One Is Already Much Further Involved That One Realizes, And I Have Still Not Learnt How To Prevent Its Appearance.