They belonged to that very small class of persons who still read, who have mind and leisure to find companionship in books. - George Gissing

Genuine respect for law is the result of possessing something which the law exerts itself to guard. Should it happen that you possess nothing, and that your education in metaphysics has been grievously neglected, the strong probability is that your mind will reduce the principle of society to its naked formula: Get, by whatever means, so long as with impunity.

Conscience is the same in my view as an inherited disease which may possibly break out on any most innocent physical indulgence.

All the pedantry of her daily toil slipped away like a cumbrous garment; she was clad only in her womanhood.