There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Only the mediocre are always at their best.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.