Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments

Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.

It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.