Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Nothing is won without enthusiasm.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.