The only quality of theirs which extorts my respect is a certain sublime selfishness which makes them willing to starve and to let their families starve sooner than do any work they don't like." "INDEED you are quite wrong, Sidney.

There was a girl at the Slade school who supported her mother and two sisters by her drawing.

Besides, what can you do?
People were made so." "Yes; I was made a landlord and capitalist by the folly of the people; but they can unmake me if they will.

Meanwhile I have absolutely no means of escape from my position except by giving away my slaves to fellows who will use them no better than I, and becoming a slave myself; which, if you please, you shall not catch me doing in a hurry.

No, my beloved, I must keep my foot on their necks for your sake as well as for my own.