War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man

Real action is in silent moments.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him