But what had made people say that he was something more than that, that he was endowed with a superior culture, had been his careful use of quotations, the perfect example of which, at that date, was still: "Give me a good policy and I will give you good finances, to quote the favourite words of Baron Louis": for we had not yet imported from the Far East: "Victory is on the side that can hold out a quarter of an hour longer than the other, as the Japanese say".