What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

Strength is the outcome of need.

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.