I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.
Christ asked for everything he got.
... life is short and the world is wide
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.