Who said “With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play,…”?

“The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.”

“Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.”

“Life is too short for a long story.”

“Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.”

“It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”

“Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, the baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe, the poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, the indifferent judge between the high and low.”

“All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.”

“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.”

“The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.”

“Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.”

“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.”