Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.