Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Divorces are made in heaven.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

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

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.