Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.