Disobedience is man's original virtue.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.