For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

Nothing is the mirror in which you see the world.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.