We may divide characters into flat and round.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

Even a fellow with a camera has his favourite subjects, as we can see looking through the Kodak-albums of our friends. One amateur prefers the family group, another bathing scenes, another cows upon an alp, or kittens held upside down in the arms of a black-faced child. The tendency to choose one subject rather than another indicates the photographer's temperament. Nevertheless, his passion is for photography rather than for selection, a kitten will serve when no cows are available.