Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.