Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.
We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.
...fact takes no heed of human hopes.
...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.