... 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.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.