The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
‘Charm’ – which means the power to effect work without employing brute force – is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman’s strength just as strength is a man’s charm.
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
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