...have The Stresses Of War Been As

I Am Not A Bit Afraid Of Siegfried Sassoon. That Man Can Think. I Am Afraid Only Of People Who Cannot Think.

I Am An Optimist. It Does Not Seem Too Much Use Being Anything Else.

The Fact That In Mohammedan Law Every Woman Must Belong To Some Man As His Absolute Property - Either As A Child, A Wife, Or A Concubine - Must Delay The Final Extinction Of Slavery Until The Faith Of Islam Has Ceased To Be A Great Power Among Men.

We Sit In Calm, Airy, Silent Rooms Opening Upon Sunlit And Embowered Lawns, Not A Sound Except Of Summer And Of Husbandry Disturbs The Peace; But Seven Million Men, Any Ten Thousand Of Whom Could Have Annihilated The Ancient Armies, Are In Ceaseless Battle From The Alps To The Ocean.

[much] As War Attracts Me And Fascinates My Mind With Its Tremendous Situations, I Feel More Deeply Every Year . . . What Vile And Wicked Folly And Barbarism It All Is.