We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.