The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown