Henry Vollam Morton Quotes

• Poverty is such a relative thing; but no man is really poor till life becomes a desert island that gives him neither food nor shelter nor hope.

  Henry Vollam Morton

  Men, Islands, Giving

  Henry Vollam Morton (1930). “The Heart of London”, London : Methuen

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• Behind everything in London is something else, and, behind that, is something else still; and so on through the centuries, so that London as we see her is only the latest manifestation of other Londons, and to lover her is to plunge into ancestor-worship.

  Henry Vollam Morton

  London, Lovers, Worship

  Henry Vollam Morton (1951). “In Search of London”

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