There must be some good in the life of battle, for so many good men have enjoyed being soldiers.

I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.

Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.