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

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

Don't hustle old people.

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

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

The Thames is liquid history.

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.