And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

Not all the monsters have fangs.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.