“No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.”
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
