Occupation: Writer Birth: September 21, 1866 Death: August 13, 1946
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture..
Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear..
We must end war before war ends us..
...fact takes no heed of human hopes..
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room….
The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life..
There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken..
Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address o….
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth..
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as ce….
It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a ….
We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear..
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own..
Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact..
Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily..
The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more co….
Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper….
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history..
We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill..
The past is but the past of a beginning..
The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate ut….