Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

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.

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.