Birth in a sphere of refinement is desirable and respectable; it saves one, absolutely, from many forms of coarseness.

The masses are not only fools, but very near the brutes.

Yes, they can send forth fine individuals--but remain base.

I don't deny the possibility of social advance; I only say that at present the lower classes are always disagreeable, often repulsive, sometimes hateful.' 'I could apply that to the classes above them.' 'Well, I can't.

But I am quite ready to admit that there are all sorts of inconsistencies in me.