“Love does not stand still, as everyone knows; it is always adding to its own shape whether by advance or retreat. Wounds can be absorbed, but only like elements embodied in a story; they are always there, part of the meaning.”

“Money is sacred as everyone knows... So then must be the hunger for it and the means we use to obtain it. Once a man is in debt he becomes a flesh and blood form of money, a walking investment. You can do what you like with him, you can work him to death or you can sell him. This cannot be called cruelty or greed because we are seeking only to recover our investment and that is a sacred duty.”

“Grief works its own perversions and betrayals; the shape of what we have lost is as subject to corruption as the mortal body...”

“It is always through arbitrary combinations that experience enslaves the memory.”

“The kneading of memory makes the dough of fiction, which, as we know, can go on yeasting for ever...”

“No latitude makes any difference to what men will do to other men, whether for gain or in the name of justice.”

“The flood of cheap manufactures, for which the people have no need,destroys their industries. They become dependent on this trade and the demand for goods can only be met by enslaving their fellows.”