No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I__e always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Don't judge a book by its cover