The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.
What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century
For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.
Pessimism does win us great happy moments.
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.