There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?
The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.