The English never draw a line without blurring it.

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.