“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.”
“Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.”
“It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.”
“...of all the kinds of decay in this world, decadent purity is the most malignant.”
“We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.”
“Englishmen rarely cry, except under the pressure of the acutest grief; whereas in some parts of the Continent the men shed tears much more readily and freely.”