To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

There is no right government except good government.