He (the Emperor) is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of th…

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Politicians, quite rightly, are not surrounded by mystique. Doctors, quite wrongly, too often are.

The dignity of his office is never impaired by the absence of efforts on his part to maintain it.

Pohl I did not know at all except, of course, that I had heard of him and perhaps I did see him occasionally at the Fuhrer's headquarters or at large meetings.…