Happiness lies only in a divine unrest; and if you are lapped in comfort you stagnate and miss it. - John Buchan

I cannot pry into motives. I only know of the existence of great extra-social intelligences. Let us say that they distrust the machine. They may be idealists and desire to make a new world, or they may simply be artists, loving for its own sake the pursuit of truth. If I were to hazard a guess, I should say that it took both types to bring about results, for the second find the knowledge and the first the will to use it.

We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity.

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.