"Everybody said so. Far be it from..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“You can't make a head and brains out of a brass knob with nothing in it. You couldn't do it when your uncle George was living much less when he's dead.”

“This fine young man had all the inclination to be a profligate of the first water, and only lacked the one good trait in the common catalogue of debauched vices - open-handedness - to be a notable vagabond. But there his griping and penurious habits stepped in; and as one poison will sometimes neutralise another, when wholesome remedies would not avail, so he was restrained by a bad passion from quaffing his full measure of evil, when virtue might have sought to hold him back in vain.”

“I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.”

“A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.”

“There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.”

“A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.”

“We don't believe a liar even when he tells the truth.”

“The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.”

“Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.”