Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

One must have some sort of occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't have anything to think about.

I was wrong. God's law is only Love.

Be yourself, because others are already taken.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.