If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field.