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

Venice is all sea and sculpture.

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

Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war.

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