“Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza, and Conscription.”

“But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads.Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls, what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.”

“And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds.”

“In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.”

“Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.”

“The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.”

“It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.”