To the relatively poor (who are so much worse off than the poor absolutely) education is in most cases a mocking cruelty. - George Gissing

To his mind there was something unnatural in a union between Egremont and Thyrza; try as he would, he could not realise it as having come to pass. The two were parted by so vast a social distinction, and, let Nature say what it will, the artificialities of life are wont to prevail.

His grey eyes searched her countenance with that horrible intensity of fanaticism which is so like the look of cruelty, of greed, of any passion originating in the baser self.

Marriage is a practical concern of mankind at large; Love is a personal experience of the very few.