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

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.

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.

All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

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

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.