No Furniture Is So Charming As Books.

If I Were To Begin Life Again, I Would Devote It To Music. It Is The Only Cheap And Unpunished Rapture Upon Earth.

The Main Question To A Novel Is -- Did It Amuse? Were You Surprised At Dinner Coming So Soon? Did You Mistake Eleven For Ten? Were You Too Late To Dress? And Did You Sit Up Beyond The Usual Hour? If A Novel Produces These Effects, It Is Good; If It Does Not -- Story, Language, Love, Scandal Itself Cannot Save It. It Is Only Meant To Please; And It Must Do That Or It Does Nothing.

[t]he 47th Proposition In Euclid Might Now Be Voted Down With As Much Ease As Any Proposition In Politics; And Therefore If Lord Hawkesbury Hates The Abstract Truths Of Science As Much As He Hates Concrete Truth In Human Affairs, Now Is His Time For Getting Rid Of The Multiplication Table, And Passing A Vote Of Censure Upon The Pretensions Of The Hypotenuse.

Life Is To Be Fortified By Many Friendships. To Love And To Be Loved Is The Greatest Happiness Of Existence.

A Man Who Wishes To Make His Way In Life Could Do No Better Than Go Through The World With A Boiling Tea-kettle In His Hand.