Broadly speaking, we are in the middle of a race between human skill as a means and human folly as an end.

no one ever gossips about the virtues of others

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present frenzied exploitation.

The true spirit of delight...is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

What was exciting in the Victorian Age, would leave a man of franker epoch quite unmoved. The more prudes restrict the permissible degree of sexual appeal, the less is required to make such an appeal effective.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.