Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

And silence, like a poultice, comes To heal the blows of sound.

Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other?

War? War is an organized bore.