War is like love, it always finds a way.

What they could do with round here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is?…

Show interest in her goodness - for no one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Science has only one commandment: contribution.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until huma…

Wars, for us, are either inevitable, or created. Whatever they are, they should not wholly vitiate art. What art needs is greater men, and what politics needs …