“Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.”

“I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.”

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired”

“A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”

“France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.”

“It's worse in the case of newspapers. Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food." p. 201”