Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

We may divide characters into flat and round.

The so called white races are really pinko-grey.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.