I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it.

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.