Power Without A Nation's Confidence Is Nothing.

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

Men Make Love More Intensely At 20, But Make Love Better, However, At 30.

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.

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.

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.'