“Mankind was my business “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

'If they would rather die, 'If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.'

“May you be happy in the life you have chosen!'"

"'Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only?'"

"'God bless us, every one!'"

"'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year "'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.'"

"I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope?'"

"They are Man’s!... This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.”

"Oh no, kind spirit. Say he will be spared.”

“Girls of that class”

“We are members of one body”

“it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”

“…the time will soon come when if man won’t learn that lesson he will be taught it in fire, blood and anguish”

“as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – community and all that nonsense”

“it frightens me the way you talk”

“I did nothing I’m ashamed of”

“But these girls aren’t cheap labour. They’re people”

“We often do on the young ones. They’re more impressionable.”

“millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths left with us”