There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

I am not fit to marry. I am often cross, and I like my own way, and I have a distaste for men.

It is the highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishman to have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.