To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

The greatest victory is defeat.