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| I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea. | | Imagination | |
| I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own. | | Uncategorized | |
| If we don't end war, war will end us. | | War | |
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| In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it. | | Uncategorized | |
| In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. | | Politics | |
| It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening. | | Uncategorized | |
| Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. | | Uncategorized | |
| Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. | | Uncategorized | |
| Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. | | Jealousy | |
| No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. | | Passion | |
| Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. | | Uncategorized | |
| Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our true nationality is mankind. | | Mankind | |
| Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. | | Church | |
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| She writes like a loom, producing her broad rich fabric with hardly a thought of how it will make up into a shape, while I write to cover a frame of ideas. | | Writing | |
| Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. | | Uncategorized | |
