“If you give me six sentences written by the most innocent of men, I will find something in them with which to hang them.”

“Deception is the knowledge of kings.”

“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.”

“Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.”

“Judge character by behavior.”

“Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.”

“He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.”