Were men as intelligent as bees, all gifted individuals would be supported by the community, as the bees support their queen.

We should be the first charge on the state just as Socrates declared that he should be kept in the Prytaneum at the public expense.
"Don't talk to me, Frank, about the hardships of the poor.

The hardships of the poor are necessities, but talk to me of the hardships of men of genius, and I could weep tears of blood.

I was never so affected by any book in my life as I was by the misery of Balzac's poet, Lucien de Rubempre." Naturally this creed of an exaggerated individualism appealed peculiarly to the best set in London.

It was eminently aristocratic and might almost be defended as scientific, for to a certain extent it found corroboration in Darwinism.