“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.”
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Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.