I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.