First of all, let me say, very shortly, that we have consistently worked with a single mind, with all the earnestness in our power, to preserve peace… - Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

Have you read Bernhardi's and Treitschke's books? I really knew nothing of them before the war, but they reveal a deliberate purpose and an animosity that are appalling. Every ideal except that of force is abolished: and truth, honour, kindliness, uprightness are all to go by the board in the interest of Germany and force. War is deliberately to be made horrible and terrible, that people may fear to resist German domination... It would be better that we should all perish than fall under the domination of the Junker spirit and people.

When we are bored, when we are out of tune, when we have little worries, it clears our feelings and changes our mood if we can get in touch with the beauty of the natural world.

[The United States is like] a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.