“My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”
“Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.”
“I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”
“In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.”
“[Mr Johnson] "You know what a Tory is – one who wants to drive the working men as he'd drive cattle."”
“... that modern sect of Flagellants who make a ritual of lashing — not themselves but — all their neighbours.”
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