"Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes."

"As it was, deformed and made mad by his hellish life, he had become what prophets had probably always been:…"

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."

"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"

"What people do with their leisure tells us a great deal about the nature of a society, what its values real…"

"The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself."

"How could you tell, when utter honesty and cynical manipulation would each account completely for the thing…"