The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.