Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.