I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones, trees and rocks; and he, wretchedly waiting in the exterior halls, could not even get his finger on one tiny, tiny lever.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.

It is most oppressive to be an aunt.