I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.

We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.