And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

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

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

... life falls into place only with God.

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.