Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other.
Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.
Animals are such agreeable friends.
Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.