It came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself. ~ Ch. 25

She did her work with the thoroughness of mind which reveres details and never quite understands them. ~ Ch. 18

They were newly rich contractors who, having bought houses, motors, hand-painted pictures, and gentlemanliness, were now buying a refined ready-made philosophy…

The content of his theology was that there was a supreme being who had tried to make us perfect, but presumably had failed; that if one was a Good Man he would…