I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

The Thames is liquid history.

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

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

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