The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

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

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.