“A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight thats gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.”

“Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue. It coils around you, a living thing, a beast that means to kill you, not with wrath, not with tooth nor claw, but with the mercy of surrender, ...”

“No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash.”

“Death was kind. He drew a sharp breath. But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.”

“Let's go to Valhalla with the sun on our faces.”

“And thats how it is in this world, boy. Start a tale, just a little tale that should fade and dietake your eye off it for just a moment and when you turn back its grown big enough to grab you up in...”

“There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.”

“The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion....”

“Be patient in affliction.”

“Do you have an anchor? I have found that a solid anchor is indispensable to one who intends to live life fully. To have an anchor is to be centered and well grounded. It is to have a vital spiritua...”

“Hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.”

“Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others for it is despair mingled with hope.”

“Through the door at the end of the hall, Bushrod could see daylight. Gray and sullen it was, but daylight all the same. Through the years Bushrod had seen the dawn come to many fields, after many h...”

“You study the Path of Peace. I practice the Art of War. There are some congruities between these different approaches but there are many more differences, and they are significant. The Art of War i...”

“we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms.”