Remember gentleman, it's not just France we're fighting for, it's Champagne!

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.