Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.