The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.