The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

The soul is swayed by the waters.

It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting.

To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.

The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.