"I have known a vast amount of nonsense talked about the dignity of labour. The dignity of labour is a comfortable thing to contemplate, but it is not a comfortable thing to experience."

"The English people are, on the whole, a very good-natured people, but they are also a very obstinate people."

"I have a great contempt for all forms of snobbery."

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."