The dull routine of business and of social life is Dead Sea fruit to our lips--dust and ashes.

It cannot hold or entertain us.
"By this I do not mean that war is good, or peace bad.

For the vast majority of men, peace is normal and right.

But there must be always a small minority that cannot tolerate ennui; that must seek risks and daring exploits; that would rather lay down their lives, today, in some man-sized exploit, than live twenty-five years longer in the dull security of a humdrum rut.
"Such men have always existed and probably always will.

We are all, I believe, of that type.