Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.