Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

Most magazines have that look of being predestined to be left which one sees on the faces of the women whose troubles bring them to the Law Courts.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.