Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.
M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
It is personalities not principles that move the age.
Some people always know the price, but not the value
If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.