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

The 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.

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.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

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.