"What a dreary stodgy world of adults the children saw when they went out!"
Chap. 1, p. 9

"Henny, in the crowded perspectives of Louie's childish memory, had once been a beautiful, dark, thin young lady in a ruffled silk dressing down, mother of a very large red infant in ruffled bassinet, receiving in state a company of very beautiful young ladies, all in their best dresses."
Chap. 1, p. 34

"What should be man's morning work?"
Chap. 2, p. 51

"'The passion was the passion of nature, the passion for good, hot selfish human passion,' Sam commented."
Chap. 3, p. 73

"Where, in all the self-righteous lying world, could she turn for a friend?"
Chap. 3, p. 87

"'They are forced to go to school and they should be forced to go to church,' cried Joe indignantly."
Chap. 4, p. 112

"'You regret later on, if you don't: you distort their minds with fairy tales, absurdities: Hans...