dubitable

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them. Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more. But I am a heretic, I think our ancestors' isolation was like the greater space they enjoyed: it can only be envied. The world is only too literally too much with us now.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was:`I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.'