The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

I hope, or I could not live.

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.