They were newly rich contractors who, having bought houses, motors, hand-painted pictures, and gentlemanliness, were now buying a refined ready-made philosophy. It had been a tossup with them whether to buy New Thought, Christian Science, or a good standard high-church model of Episcopalianism. ~ Ch. 30

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

He heard them whispering - whispering... The independence seeped out of him and he walked the streets alone, afraid of men's cynical eyes and the incessant his…

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