Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Everybody talks, nobody listens. Good listeners are as rare as white crows.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.… You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.