What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?
The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.
Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
The true sweetness of chess, if it can ever be called sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadows of apparently irrevocable disaster.
The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.
Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.
When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.
Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.
The future is the shape of things to come.
Let your love be stronger than your hate or anger. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little than to break.
Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.
There are no social differences – till women come in.
We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.
Chess is a curse upon a man.