Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

All mists curl off the roof of my being. That confidence I shall keep to my dying day. :ike a long wave, like a roll of heavy waters, he washes over me, his devastating presence - dragging me open, laying bare the pebbles on the shore of my soul. It was humiliating. I was turned to small stones.

Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations ...

All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general mind which they interpret and indeed almost discover, so that we come to read them rather for that than for any story or character or scene of seperate excellence.

On or about December 1910, human character changed.