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

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

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

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.

. . . 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.

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.