What I chose instinctively to do I knew to be right and in accordance with my destiny.

I never hesitated over great things, but answered promptly to the call of my genius.

So what was it to me whether my neighbors spurned or embraced me, if my way was no man's way?
Nor should any one ever reject me whom I chose to be my friend, because I would make sure of a kindred spirit by the coincidence of our guiding stars.
When, where in the harum-scarum life of Dover Street was there time or place for such self-communing?
In the night, when everybody slept; on a solitary walk, as far from home as I dared to go.
I was not unhappy on Dover Street; quite the contrary.

Everything of consequence was well with me.

Poverty was a superficial, temporary matter; it vanished at the touch of money.