I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

Religion is the opium of the poor.

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.