Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.
Beatrice WebbThe interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.
Beatrice WebbAre all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?
Beatrice WebbBeneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.
Beatrice Webb