If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

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

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.