Iron hand in a velvet glove.
“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”
“How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion when I cannot make two timepieces agree!”
“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”
“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”
“What a curious power words have.”