Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that few women keep house so badly or with such wastefulness as chancellors of the exchequer keep the state.

Greatness is its own torment.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

I am conscious of eternal life.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.