Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of judgment. But amateur standards, the standards of love, are always straining upward toward the humble and the best. They enlarge the ground of judgment. The context of love is the world.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.

All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.

What could be more superstitious than the idea that money brings forth food?

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.

The earth is what we all have in common.