John Oliver Hobbes

“ Stand alone, be indifferent to smiles and frowns, keep our eyes steadily fixed on one unattainable ideal and condemn in yourself all that falls short of it, do that and I will call you happy! Defy slander, defy the malice of evil tongues and false hearts, defy even one rule of etiquette!"
"No woman has anything to fear except the truth," said Lady Mallinger, "so long as the truth will bear telling, she can laugh at lies. They may for a time work mischief, but only for a time." ”

“ Lady Mallinger was an inexhaustible delight: egoism [6] , which in any other woman seemed intolerable, was, in her case, the most charming thing in the world: selfishness, he argued, where the self was so perfectly bewitching even amounted to a duty: dull, tedious, and unpleasant beings did well to lose sight of themselves, but for Lilian to forget herself would be like a flower forgetting to bloom [7] .
When Wiche had gone Lilian paced the floor and mistook this bodily exercise for deep thought. ”

“ If he will only trust me and believe in me always—if he will only see me—not as I am, but as I should be—I am sure we shall be happy!"
"It is not hard to be good when you have love and sympathy and encouragement," said Teresa, warmly, "but to be good when not one soul cares whether you live or die, when your kindest thoughts, your least selfish acts, your dearest sacrifices are treated alike with insult, cruelty, and contempt—to be good then, that is the great achievement. ”

“ My parents are dead and now I have nothing in this life except my wretched, hopeless interest in a man who has never given me a thought. Perhaps I need not say that. He is the only man I know who has not asked me to marry him, so I think he must like me a little. And he comes to see me very often. But you only care for him because he flatters you, you are proud of him because he is distinguished, but I was proud of him when he was poor and obscure, when every one thought him an outcast, when it was almost a crime in our miserable little corner of society to be seen even bowing to him. ”

“ In Shakespeare's work the fool often has the most wisdom in the play and speaks the most truth, yet he seems like he does not know what he is saying as he says it. Twelfth Night also has a plot similar to A Bundle of Life in which there is a web of characters in love with each other, constantly running in and out of the play's action.↑ Do not worry about living by a moral or ethical code ”

“ Lady Malinger is showing disdain here towards the men who have considered her serious air, as simply emotional↑ psychological egoism: "the view that humans are always motivated by self-interest."↑ Wiche believes it would be an impossibility for Lady Malinger to not think of herself, just as it is an impossibility for a flower not to bloom↑ calm down↑ very excited ”