The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.

Personality is lower than partiality.

Above all nations is humanity.

We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.

Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.

Try & try until you cannot succeed.

To love others you've got to love yourself, but I love myself too much I've got no place for others.

When you don’t know what true for you, everyone else has unusual influence.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.