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.

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

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

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.

Beneath 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.

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

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