Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
Beatrice Webbthe possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Beatrice WebbNature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
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 Webb