“I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.”

“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”

“So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape (...)”

“The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.”

“I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.”

“I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.”

“Really the answers I get are idiotic. The entire correspondence of you and Robbie with me should be published. The best title would be Letters from Two Idiots to a Lunatic, I should fancy.”