He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.

Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.