The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us:—against whom, against whom?

What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

Anything you can settle with money is cheap.

It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hour's bombardment unscratched. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well.