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.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.