Stuart

“A Private who loses his rifle suffers greater consequences than a General who loses a war.”
― Lt. Col. Yingling

“At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena