Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.