The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

We must end war before war ends us.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.