“These are the times that try men's souls.”

“That's why you got married - to feel safe from all the men who were trying to siphon your soul.”

“...men lived and died all the time by the peculiarities of their soul, which they could never expect one another to understand.”

“We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.”

“Though at that time men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.”

“These are the times that try men's souls. It's never pleasant to be caught in the machinery when a favourite comes unstitched, and in the case of this particular dashed animal, one had come to look on the running of the race as a pure formality, a sort of quaint, old-world ceremony to be gone through before one sauntered up to the bookie and collected.”