When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

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.

When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.