Hunger makes a fool of a man.

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.