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

. . . 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.

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

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.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.