Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

Appraisals are where you get together with your team leader and agree what an outstanding member of the team you are, how much your contribution has been valued, what massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved.