There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.

Close your eyes, all you see is yours.