War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start.

Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.