You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

A young mistress is better than an old master.

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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.