It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.