If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

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.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

Strength is the outcome of need.

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

There's truths you have to grow into.