There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!

why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.

The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

A sense of humor is so handy, isn't it? It lets you see both sides of a question so that you never need do anything.

Life flows on over death as water closes over a stone dropped into a pool. ... Fate is certain; death is certain; but the courage and nobility of men and women matter more than these.