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.

I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.