Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.