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

. . . 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.

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

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

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

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.

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