He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

In war, one cannot say what one feels.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.