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?

I could never stay long enough on the shore; the tang of the untainted, fresh, and free sea air was like a cool, quieting thought.

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

My friends have made the story of my life.

It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.