I Beg You Take Courage;

If I May Venture To Be Frank I Would Say About Myself That I Was Every Inch A Gentleman.

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.

To Tempt, And To Be Tempted, Are Things Very Nearly Allied, And, In Spite Of The Finest Maxims Of Morality Impressed Upon The Mind, Whenever Feeling Has Anything To Do In The Matter, No Sooner Is It Excited Than We Have Already Gone Vastly Farther Than We Are Aware Of, And I Have Yet To Learn How It Is Possible To Prevent Its Being Excited.

You Must Be Gay; Only Thus Can Life Be Endured. I Speak From Experience For I Have Had To Endure Much, And Have Only Been Able To Endure It Because I Have Always Laughed Whenever I Had The Chance.

Power Without A Nation's Confidence Is Nothing.