Your idealism is often noble, but never heroic.

You have talked to me of your natural nearness to people of the working class, and I firmly believe that you are further from them--for any such purpose as this in question--than many a man who counts kindred among the peerage.

You have a great deal of spiritual pride, and it will increase as your mind matures.

You think you _are_ mature; tell me in ten years (if I am alive, old woman that I am!) how you look back on your present self.

Walter Egremont, if ever you ask Thyrza to marry you, you will be acting with cruel selfishness--yes, selfishness, for all that you would pay bitterly for it in the end.