“They may be trivial or absurd, but one must remember that in a few years most of our existing methods of transport will be profoundly changed.”

Showing how apparently minor observations can reveal major technological change. · Speech, Some Aspects of Travel, 1914

• Change
• Observation
• Travel

“You will do what he wants: he will not do what you want.”

Illustrating the power of someone who cannot be bought or intimidated. · Speech, Values in Life, 1907

• Character
• Independence
• Power

“When it has done this it is literature of which it will be said, in due time, that it fitly represents its age.”

Defining enduring literature partly by its ability to represent its historical moment. · Speech, Literature, 1906

• History
• Literature
• Writing