One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.
Category Archive: 1858
It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman’s strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken – they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.
The Thames is liquid history.
Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.
Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.