Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.