Pure literature seemed beyond his scope, yet he was constantly endeavouring to express himself. - George Gissing

Let beauty perish if it cannot ally itself with mind.

The sum of their faults was their inability to earn money; but, indeed, that inability does not call for unmingled disdain.

You have heard that Nancy wants to mix with the rag-tag and bobtail tomorrow night?’
‘I shall take care of her,’ Horace replied, starting from his reverie.
‘Doesn’t it seem to you rather a come-down for an educated young lady?’
‘Oh, there’ll be lots of them about.’
‘Will there? Then I can’t see much difference between them and the servant girls.