“Honor is the same as credit; it's one's ability to keep ones promises, but also, in the case of a wrong, to "get even."”

“One must have a good memory to keep the promises one has made.”

“One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.”

“In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.”

“Self-portraiture is something one should never get involved in, since it is wrong to lie even though one endeavours to tell the truth.”

“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”

“There is no correlation between having the ability to punish and being right. More often than not, the wrong people get punished. And the punishers use their power to keep from being accountable.”

“It is not enough to be wrong, one must also be polite.”

“Love is free: to promise for ever to love the same woman, is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed: such a vow in both cases, excludes us from all enquiry.”

“If anyone believes that the enforcement of laws will be stopped if I am done away with, that they are more than wrong, because I am not the system. The system will keep on functioning and no one will get amnesty by getting one or two state officials out of the way.”