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

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.

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

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

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.

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.