42 Quotes by Edward Carpenter

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

Early in 1883, as I have said, I gave my first lecture on social questions, and from that time forward I spoke on these subjects.

In the summer of '84 I went again to the United States, my chief object again being to see Whitman - though I had also friends to visit.