It is the things for which there is no evidence that are believed with passion.

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world.

Force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into the hands of those who are enemies of civilization.