💬 Quotes

"The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience."

"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal aims of humanity."

"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."

"She was not pretty, but she possessed all that freshness and life which makes a woman charming."

"He had imagined battles with heroes, and he had heard of red sickness, but the reality was a mystery."

"He suddenly came to feel that he did not have a red badge of courage."

"He was a man. He was now a veteran. He had been to touch the great death, and he had found that he was a man."

"The blue demons were massing to attack. The sun was dipping toward the horizon."

"He found that he could look upon the slain men and be touched by mere pity, and that he did not suffer a mental wreck as he had thought might occur."

"He had been to the seminary of the nights of toil and danger; he had been schooled in fire and rain."

"I know myself, but that's all."

"A man should be indifferent to many things, but not to the quality of his sins."

"I'm tired of needing women. I'm tired of women needing me."

"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."

"My generation is growing up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."

"I know myself, but that is all. And `--` oh, I'm romanticly disposed."

"To the peasants in whom continual bodily labour has produced heavy massiveness of intellect, satisfaction is a double-edged thing, of which long privation is not the least bitter component."

"In this strange world, made a hopeless riddle to him, he might have been a long while bemoaning his loss, but for the change—the change that came over his heart, before he knew its bearing."

"A man does not make his own blood, and it was his own judgment that had made him an actor in that scene."

"There is pity that rests on the moral injury done to by-standers by making them the accomplices of a solemn falsehood."