In The One Branch He Most Needed

I Think That Lee Should Have Been Hanged. It Was All The Worse That He Was A Good Man And A Fine Character And Acted Conscientiously... It's Always The Good Men Who Do The Most Harm In The World.

Every Syllable That Can Be Struck Out Is Pure Profit, And Every Page That Can Be Economised Is A Five-per-cent Dividend. Nature Rebels Against This Rule; The Flesh Is Weak, And Shrinks From The Scissors; I Groan In Retrospect Over The Weak.

Nature, To Be Commanded, Must Be Obeyed. The Imagination Must Be Given Not Wings But Weights.

Modern Politics Is, At Bottom, A Struggle Not Of Men But Of Forces.

Some Day Science May Have The Existence Of Mankind In Its Power, And The Human Race Commit Suicide, By Blowing Up The World.