I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future

A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ominously on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under the stars.