There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.
That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.
Religion is love; in no case is it logic.
. . . if I had been a man, self-respect, family pressure and the public opinion of my class would have pushed me into a money-making profession; as a mere woman I could carve out a career of disinterested research.
Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.
Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.
To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.
Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.
Folks in the media ask at the behest of Democrats, "isn't it insensitive for us to do a Second Amendment rally following this terror attack?" Let me tell you something. I really don't view our job as being sensitive to Islamic terrorists.