You Were In A Mood To Quarrel.

Nothing Is More Difficult, In My Opinion, Than To Avoid Something That Fundamentally Attracts You.

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.

A Great Wind Is Blowing, And That Gives You Either Imagination Or A Headache.

It Is Better To Inspire A Reform Than To Enforce It.

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.'