When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.