The sum of the whole matter is this - our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.

We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

The seed of revolution is repression.

We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.