The Thames is liquid history.

For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.

Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all.