Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.

Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

..bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation-to make a point-than to further the cause of truth." Dupin in "The Mystery of Marie Roget

To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary.

Invisible things are the only realities.

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.