Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.