Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.