There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

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.