Here you can see nearly as many kinds of people, and you can get closer to them.

You can see how they earn their living, and you can even follow them to church on Sunday and see what they get out of that!" "I'm afraid," he replied, after deliberating a moment, "that you are going to make yourself uncomfortable; you are cutting out a programme of unhappiness." "Why shouldn't I make myself uncomfortable for a little while?
I have never known anything but comfort." "But that's your blessing; no matter how much you want to do it you can't remove all the unhappiness in the world--not even by dividing with the less fortunate.

I've never been able to follow that philosophy." "Maybe," she said, "you have never tried it!" She was seeking neither to convince him nor to accomplish his discomfiture and to this end was maintaining her share of the dialogue to the accompaniment of a smile of amity.
"Maybe I never have," he replied slowly.

"I didn't have your advantage of seeing a place to begin." "But you have the advantage of every one; you have the thing that I can never hope to have, that I don't ask for: you have the power in your hands to do everything!" His quick, direct glance expressed curiosity as to whether she were appealing to his vanity or implying a sincere belief in his power.
"Power is too large a word to apply to me, Miss Garrison.

I have had a good deal of experience in politics, and in politics you can't do all you like." "I didn't question that: men of the finest intentions seem to fail, and they will probably go on failing.