Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks.
Trifles go to make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment. When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people.