Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.