If the common soldiers of each army could just get together by a river bank and talk things over calmly, no war could possibly last as long as a week.

...man...is a frail, lost creature, too weak to walk unaided.

I have never ceased to wonder at the thing we call human nature, with its times of beauty and its times of filthiness, or at the level of calm stupidity that l…

The time comes in the life of each of us when we realize that death awaits us as it awaits others, that we will receive at the end neither preference nor exemp…