There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law.
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.
I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.
Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.
...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon.