I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.

It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.