Moralists and philosophers have adjudged those who throw temptation in the way of the erring, equally guilty with those who are thereby led into evil

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.