The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.