Perhaps the best hope for the future of mankind is that ways will be found of increasing the scope and intensity of sympathy.

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

To discover a system for the avoidance of war is a vital need of our civilisation.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

Most of the greatest evils that man has inflicted upon man have come through people feeling quite certain about something which, in fact, was false.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, and too much brings chaos.