“The beautiful is just as useful as the useful.”

“The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”

“The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .”

“So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.”

“Then live your life, above all things. Make use of your I while you have it.”

“Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no one is happy.”