“Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.”

“There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . .”

“Science explained people, but could not understand them.”

“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”

“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.”

“It's better to be fooled than to be suspicious - that the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.”

“She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”