Is it not meningitis?

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy.