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

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?

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.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

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