The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.