It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

[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.

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.