If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

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

But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.