Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

Never think that wars are irrational catastrophes: they happen when wrong ways of thinking and living bring about intolerable situations ... the root causes of conflict are usually to be found in some wrong way of life in which all parties have acquiesced, and for which everybody must, to some extent, bear the blame.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

The only Christian work is good work, well done

For the sole true end of education is simply this: to teach men how to learn for themselves; and whatever instruction fails to do this is effort spent in vain.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.