I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

Great intellects are skeptical.