For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

When angry, count to a hundred.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.