That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.

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

At present I feel like a caged animal, bound up by the luxury, comfort and respectability of my position. I can't get the training that I want without neglecting my duty.

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

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.

. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.