Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.