I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Wilkie CollinsThe horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
Wilkie CollinsYes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.
Wilkie Collins