To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

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.