"It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system."

"In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations."

"As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties."

"Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive."

"A steadfast commander remains calm when the storm rages fiercest. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a quiet truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless."