Hunger makes a fool of a man.
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.