“That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.”

“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.”

“Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?”

“It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain, though not, as you will see, of his affairs. It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring. He sank daily, and my mother and I had all the inn upon our hands, and were kept busy enough without paying much regard to our unpleasant guest.”

“Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.”

“...the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers.”

“But of works of art little can be said.”