You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

Humility is the mother of giants.

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house - this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind. The world may accept something more official and general, less human and intimate. But the world will be like a broken-hearted woman who makes a humdrum marriage because she may not make a happy one; Socialism may be the world's deliverance, but it is not the world's desire.