The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously...

As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days,...

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature....

And in heaven’s name, who are the public enemies?” exclaimed Dr. Leete. “Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.