Only those strong enough to keep silent about self are strong enough to be sure of self. - John Galsworthy

I loathe the idea of cutting down trees. Two hundred years of shape and energy all gone in half an hour. It's revolting.

inquiry of Jack Cardigan: ‘What’s the use of keepin’ fit?’ or, more simply, to the fact that he was a foreigner, or alien as it was now called.

An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he had not money he was free in law and not in fact. An era which had canonized hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be.