I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. . . . He does not have to struggle. . . with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.

"It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee -- and not too far away lest he forget thee.