It came to me this morning all unexpectedly, being the payment of a debt which I had long since given up hope of ever receiving. In other words, it i… - E. V. Lucas

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

The special quality of the act of finding something, with its consequent exhilaration, is half unexpectedness and half separateness. There being no warning, and the article coming to you by chance, no one is to be thanked, no one to be owed anything. In short, you have achieved the greatest human triumph — you have got something for nothing.

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.