Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.