The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped primarily to favour the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity — beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds, and a growing body of knowledge — and to check the procreation of base and servile types, of fear-driven and cowardly souls, of all that is mean and ugly and bestial in the souls, bodies, or habits of men.

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

Strength is the outcome of need.