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

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

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

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

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.

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.