The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

If you're going to have a character appear in a story long enough to sell a newspaper, he'd better be real enough that you can smell his breath.