I say to him: What are you going to do if you get into Parliament?
Are you going to talk political economy, and make believe that everything is right, when it's as wrong as can be?
If so, I say, you'd better save your money for other purposes, and stay where you are.

He tells me my views are impracticable; then, I say, so much the worse for the world, and so much the more shame for every rich man who finds excuses for such a state of things.

It is dreadful to think of what those poor people must have gone through.

They were so perfectly quiet under it that no one gave a thought to their position.

When Emily used to come here day after day, I've often suspected she didn't have enough to eat, yet it was impossible for me to ask questions, it would have been called prying into things that didn't concern me.' 'She has told me for how much kindness she is indebted to you,' Wilfrid said, with gratitude.
'Pooh! What could I do?
Oh, don't we live absurdly artificial lives?
Now why should a family who, through no fault of their own, are in the most wretched straits, shut themselves up and hide it like a disgrace?
Don't you think we hold a great many very nonsensical ideas about self-respect and independence and so on?
If I were in want, I know two or three people to whom I should forthwith go and ask for succour; if they thought the worse of me for it, I should tell them they ought to be ashamed of themselves.