How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
We perhaps never detect how much of our social demeanour is made up of artificial airs, until we see a person who is at once beautiful and simple. (6.9.1)
The "beautiful and simple" Maggie is contrasted to "artificial" society here, implying that there is something to be said for being removed from society.
Quote #8
We judge others according to results; how else? - not knowing the process by which results are arrived at. (7.2.1)
The narrator comments on how society at large doesn’t really take the time to understand individuals and their motives. This contrasts to the views of Maggie, however, who places a huge emphasis on the feelings of others and on the past itself. The present moment, or end "result" often matters less that what preceded it and what led up to it.
Quote #9
All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our lives is not to be embraced by maxims, and that to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sot is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy. (7.2.27)
If we had to pick one thematic statement to sum up this book, this would be it. Above all else the narrator emphasizes the need to see people as individuals and to try to understand them as unique, rather than lump people together and create overly broad social rules to govern everybody. Maggie definitely embodies the spirit of this message.