It was said, I suppose, to gain sympathy among the French, and is therefore not my immediate business, as they are eminently capable of looking after themselves.

I merely drop one word in passing, lest you waste your powerful intellect on such projects.

The English may some day forgive you; the French never will.

You Teutons are too light and fickle to understand the Latin seriousness.

My only concern is to point out that about England, at least, you are invariably and miraculously wrong.
Now speaking seriously, my dear Professor, it will not do.