Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

Genius sometimes consists of knowing when to stop.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back upon himself.