If I saw a glass of wine repeatedly presented to a man, and he took no notice of it, I should be apt to think that he was blind or uncivil. A juster philosophy might teach me rather to think that my eyes deceived me, and that the offer was not really what I conceived it to be.

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support - the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.