"He's just a common, ignorant man, and probably didn't know how to express himself.

You may be perfectly sure that he's delighted with the success of the magazine, and that he understands as well as you do that he owes it all to you." "Ah, I'm not so sure.

I don't believe a man's any better for having made money so easily and rapidly as Dryfoos has done, and I doubt if he's any wiser.

I don't know just the point he's reached in his evolution from grub to beetle, but I do know that so far as it's gone the process must have involved a bewildering change of ideals and criterions.

I guess he's come to despise a great many things that he once respected, and that intellectual ability is among them--what we call intellectual ability.