“The time is near when men will receive their normal impressions of a new country suddenly and in plan, not slowly and in perspective.”

Anticipating how modern transport would change the psychology of travel. · Speech, Some Aspects of Travel, 1914

• Change
• Perception
• Travel

“It does not square with experience that any class of men has pre-eminence over any other class in the zeal and perseverance with which its members go about to compass their own ruin.”

Rejecting stereotypes about writers as uniquely chaotic or self-destructive. · Speech, The Handicaps of Letters, 1908

• Character
• Experience
• Writers

“The most extreme distances will be brought within the compass of one week’s travel.”

Remarkably prescient speculation about the shrinking of geographical distance. · Speech, Some Aspects of Travel, 1914

• Change
• Future
• Travel