The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything. - Aldous Huxley

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.