Occupation: Writer Birth: July 27, 1870 Death: July 16, 1953
Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise..
Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires..
Let us then repeat and firmly fix this main point: the evil, the root evil, of that to which the term Capitalism has come to be applied, is neither i….
The sea drives truth into a man like salt..
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment..
These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity….
The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today univer….
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope..
I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew tha….
Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure..
The Rich arrived in pairs And also in Rolls Royces; They talked of their affairs In loud and strident voices... The Poor arrived in Fords, Whose fea….
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night..
If we do not restore the Institution of Property we cannot escape restoring the Institution of Slavery; there is no third course..
The Devil, having nothing else to do Went off to tempt my Lady Poltagrue. My Lady, tempted by a private whim, To his extreme annoyance, tempted him..
There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean..
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should contemn your height; That with my blam….
For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned..
It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them..
Of courtesy, it is much less Than courage of heart or holiness, Yet in my walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in courtesy..
And the men that were boys when I was a boy Shall sit and drink with me..
Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'.