“I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.”
“I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness - yes, goodness. I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am”
“Because you are the one. You are better than me in some things, and I am better than you in others...I don’t mind being a bit like you. I hope you don’t mind being a bit like me.”
“I am looking at you and you are looking at me. This is very good. I am looking and I am liking. You are looking and you are thinking, 'I hope she doesn't hit me with her crop.' But that is because I am me and you are you.”
“The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s).”
“And no, I think i'm better than you because I am better than you.”