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

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

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

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

The Thames is liquid history.

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