But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.

The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.