Who said “Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!”?

“War is like love, it always finds a way.”

“All war represents a failure of diplomacy.”

“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.”

“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”

“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”

“The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.”

“Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.”

“Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.”

“And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.”

“You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.”

“'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.”