Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

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

We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

Our knowledge of life is limited to death