Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.

Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.

There are, I sometimes think, only two sorts of people in this world - the settled and the nomad - and there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they may belong.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?

Risk is the salt and sugar of life.