I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

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.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world