It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.