Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

Only people who are well off can be - complex.

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

For after the Battle comes quiet.