The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not); it is that they are boastful about those particular things which nobody can boast of without losing them.
It is always the secure who are humble.
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable