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

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.