There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

Time has only a relative existence.

Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or notice taken when anybody enters or leaves. Let the entering man take his place and pipe, without obligatory remarks; if he cannot smoke...let him at least affect to do so, and not ruffle the established stream of things.

Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.