If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.