“Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.”
“Peaceful and kind one monk is more valuable than violent and rude ten thousand men!”
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
“It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.”
“It takes more courage to send men into battle than to fight the battle yourself.”
“The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.”