To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.