I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.