Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.