Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

My subject is war, and the pity of war.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears; and caused a permanent stoppage in all bolts; and buckled with a smile Mausers and Colts; and rusted every bayonet with His tears.

Those who, like the beasts, have no such Hope, pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory. The old lie: It is sweet and fitting that you should die for your country.