The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Time and attention are the most precious gifts we can give.

The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

A man of rare common sense and directness of speech, as of action; a transcendentalist above all, a man of ideas and principles,Mthat was what distinguished him.

People are afraid to spend money now because they dont know how long theyre going to be working.

All energy flows according to the whims of the great Magnet. What a fool I was to defy him.

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the commencement of the work of life.

A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

I shall be so brief that I have already finished.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.