Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

What a force is laughter.

As the fathers live, so the children play.

In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme, heartbreaking happiness to enter a classroom carrying a register as that bell rang, and start a lesson with the mysterious air of one about to unfold wonders.