...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.