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

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

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

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

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.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

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