A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.
I believe the twenty-four hour day has come to stay.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.