“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
“The canter is a cure for every evil.”
“Every woman should marry ... and no man.”
“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”
“He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.”
“It is well-known what a middleman is; he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.”