In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

Soldiers have many faults, but they have one redeeming merit; they are never worshippers of force. Soldiers more than any other men are taught severely and systematically that might is not right. The fact is obvious. The might is in the hundred men who obey. The right (or what is held to be right) is in the one man who commands them.

If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.