The crying need for the moment in this country, as in America, is a gospel of poverty to cope with the gospel of riches that is vitiating society. - E. V. Lucas

I see that the pigeon-holes of Fleet Street must be full of these anticipatory articles which only need occasional revision to date to be all ready when the scythe is finally sharpened. To meet an editor must be for a thoughtful celebrity as chilling as the spectacle of the mummy at the Egyptian banquet.

It was almost impossible for a book to carry no association for that swooping, pouncing brain. He either knew it, or knew of it, or had always wanted to know it.

There are moments when one is more ashamed of what is called culture than any one can ever be of ignorance.