Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.

This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

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.