The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

War, when you are at it, is horrible and dull, it is only when time has passed that you see that its message was divine.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why endure long months of pain in preparation of a fierce half hour, or even six minutes, that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all its costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph - or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give all the blood in his body to win the one, will he not spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?