You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

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.

The most useful is the greatest.

It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.

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

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.