Wherever there was a group of people, and a treasure to be administered, there Peter knew was backbiting and scandal and intriguing and spying, and a chance for somebody whose brains were 'all there.'

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain

It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the 'cooler,' and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-s…

Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, r…

'The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.'

Prince : How about you and your friends, versus me...and the Revolution.

Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones …