Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.