The French cook; we open tins.

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.

The talked-about is always the last to hear the talk . . .

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

Essential characteristics of a gentleman: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; and the power to do what seems to him to be right without considering what others may say or think.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.