All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force..

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want withou….

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions..

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a….

Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an ….

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom ha….

Religion is love; in no case is it logic..

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius..

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell..

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the clev….

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life..

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off….

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people..

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the ….

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains..

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity..

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?.

Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others..