“Всяка трудност увеличава нашите сили.”

“He who writes this book in which hate is not hidden was formerly a pacifist...For him no disillusionment was ever greater or more sudden. It struck him with such violence that he thought himself no longer the same man. And yet, as it seems to him that in this state of hatred his conscience becomes diminished, he dedicates these pages, with emotion, to the man he used to be.”

“La LysVous entourez nos champs et hameaux,là-bas,De mille et mille méandres,Pour mieux tenir serrée, entre vos bras,La Flandre.”

“La beauté est partout, mais elle ne se révèle qu'à l'amour.”

“Countless pleasures are wasted through ignorance and a want of skill and attention.”

“Show me how you drink and I will tell you who you are.”

“It has been said that, given two bettors, there is always one thief and one imbecile; that is true in certain cases when one of the two bettors is much better informed than the other, and knows it; but it can easily happen that two men of good faith, in complex matters where they possess exactly the same elements of information, arrive at different conclusions on the probabilities of an event, and that in betting together, each believes…that it is he who is the thief and the other the imbecile.”