To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

We must end war before war ends us.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.