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

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.