There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.
Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.
I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back.