Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

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

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.