Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.

The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.

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

But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.