The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. - Christopher Morley

"heart?""Will you write for Bunion and Callous, the trade organ of the Floorwalkers' Union, a thousand-word review of your career?""Will"

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings

"None of the neighbouring ladies would stand as godmother, for they were secretly dubious as to the children's origin; so he had asked good Mrs. Spaniel to act in that capacity. She, a simple kindly creature, was much flattered, though certainly she can have understood very little of the symbolical rite. Gissing, filling out the form that Mr. Poodle had given him, had put down the names of an entirely imaginary brother and sister-in-law of his, "deceased," whom he asserted as the parents."