In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.
Man can learn everything if he will but try.
Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.