A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.

Silence is the wit of fools.

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.