But they were fated to misunderstand each other.

...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.

The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.

An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.