If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?

Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.