Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

Somehow one can never manage to be an atheist.

By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

To hurry through one's leisure is the most unbusiness-like of actions.

No man must be superior to the things that are common to men.... Not only are we all in the same boat, but we are all seasick.

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.