“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”

“If every man lays down his arms and refuses to pick them up, the first man to pick up can do whatever he wants.”

“Never ask them for an explanation. You only end up worse confused.”

“If you can't convince them, confuse them.”

“We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion — a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.”

“"You know how to deal with senior officers?" "Respectfully." "Confuse them. Except for the ones who can't be confused, like Wellington."”

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”

“Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.”

“People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i. e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.”

“They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.”