Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.

If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.

Definite gifts render their possessors capable of overcoming any obstacle this side of death; they create an impetus of far more genuine value than external advantages in some other career where the impulse to make use of them remains weak or non-existent. The work that one enjoys is the greatest source of happiness and vitality in life.

Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.