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

“With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.”

“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.”

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

“A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.”

“Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!”

“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.”

“So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?”

“Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.”