We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

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.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.