“For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.”
“It was simply what happened when the histories of two people dovetailed into one.”
“Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.”
“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.”
“A shoe that fits one person pinches another.”
“She had...the glimmerings of a sense of humour - which is simply another name for a sense of the fitness of things.”