Eleven
In the Five Towns human nature is reported to be so hard that you can break stones on it. Yet sometimes it softens, and then we have one of our rare idylls of which we are very proud, while pretending not to be. The soft and delicate South would possibly not esteem highly our idylls, as such. Nevertheless they are our idylls, idyllic for us, and reminding us, by certain symptoms, that, though we never cry, there is concealed somewhere within our bodies a fount of happy tears.
Twelve
Reason is the basis of personal dignity.
Thirteen
It is by the passionate few that the renown of genius is kept alive from one generation to another.
Fourteen
We are all of us the same in essence; what separates us is merely differences in our respective stages of evolution.
Fifteen
It is well known that dignity will only bleed while you watch it. Avert your eyes and it instantly dries up.