A look which must be called the "banker's look", and that has something of vultures and lawyers: it is avid and indifferent, light and dark, brilliant and obscure.
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Society
In the strangely simple economy of the world people only get what they give, and to those who have not enough imagination to penetrate the mere outward of things and feel pity, what pity can be given save that of scorn?
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The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty.
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There is the same world for all of us, and good and evil, sin and innocence, go through it hand in hand. To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice.
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If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As far as civilisation goes they are in their second.
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Good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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