War Is A Specific Product

Organic Planning Does Not Begin With A Preconceived Goal; It Moves From Need To Need, From Opportunity To Opportunity, In A Series Of Adaptations That Themselves Become Increasingly Coherent And Purposeful, So That They Generate A Complex Final Design, Hardly Less Unified Than A Pre-formed Geometric Pattern.

Life Is The Only Art That We Are Required To Practice Without Preparation, And Without Being Allowed The Preliminary Trials, The Failures And Botches, That Are Essential For The Training...

The Cities And Mansions That People Dream Of Are Those In Which They Finally Live.

The Very People Who Shudder Over The Cruelty Of The Hunter Are Apt To Forget That Slaughter, In The Grimmest Sense Of The Word, Is A Process They Entrust Daily To The Butcher; And That Unlike The Game Of The Forests, Even The Dumbest Creatures Of The Slaughterhouse Know What Is In Store For Them.

Without Fullness Of Experience, Length Of Days Is Nothing. When Fullness Of Life Has Been Achieved, Shortness Of Days Is Nothing. That Is Perhaps Why The Young Have Usually So Little Fear Of Death; They Live By Intensities That The Elderly Have Forgotten.