"Pardon me, but you must admit, that just now, an unpleasant distrust, however vague, was yours. Ah, shallow as it is,…"

"Well, there is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow…"

"To be full of warm, earnest words, and heart-felt protestations, is to create a scene; and well-bred people dislike f…"

"Now, young friend, perhaps you think that Tacitus, like me, is only melancholy; but he's more — he's ugly. A vast dif…"

"Yes, learn from me that, though the sorrows of the world are great, its wickedness — that is, its ugliness — is small."

"I myself have known adversity, and know it still. But for that, do I turn cynic? No, no: it is small beer that sours.…"

"Tacitus — he is the most extraordinary example of a heretic; not one iota of confidence in his kind. What a mockery t…"

"Look, you, you on others' behalf ask for money; you, a fellow with a face as long as my arm. Hark ye, now: there is s…"

"It is one of the imbecilities of the suspicious person to fancy that every stranger, however absent-minded, he sees s…"

"The mind is ductile, very much so: but images, ductilely received into it, need a certain time to harden and bake in …"