“Better mistrust undeserved than rash words.”
“It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that.”
“It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.”
“She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.”
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
“I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.”