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

The things men did or felt they had to do.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

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.

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.

Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

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