"London is a sort of whirlpool which draws derelict people towards it, and it is so vast that life there is solitary a…"

"It it curious how seldom the all-importance of food is recognized. You see statues everywhere to politicians, poets, …"

"Tea, the Englishman's opium."

"The English palate, especially the working-class palate, now rejects good food almost automatically."

"I have noticed that people who let lodgings nearly always hate their lodgers. They want their money but they look on …"

"Columbus sailed the Atlantic, the first steam engines tottered into motion, the British squares stood firm under the …"

"I am not a manual labourer and please God I shall never be one, but there are some kinds of manual work that I could …"

"It is so with all types of manual work; it keeps us alive, and we are oblivious of its existence. In a way it is even…"

"This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other …"

"The underlying motive of many Socialists, I believe, is simply a hypertrophied sense of order. The present state of a…"