Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"