For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

What am I that I am called upon to have prejudices concerning the universe?

I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.