A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.

That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.

There are a good many fools who call me a friend, and also a good many friends who call me a fool.

The grinding power of the plain words of the Gospel story is like the power of mill-stones, and those who can read them simply enough will feel as if rocks had been rolled upon them.

All government is an ugly necessity.