"It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny."

"I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark."

"The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law."

"I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face."

"There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death."