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

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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