Our true nationality is mankind.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

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.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.