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.
The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.