"I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are gener… - Jerome K. Jerome

Ko lai dara - šīs pasaules dzīve ir vienīgi rūgts pārbaudījums, un cilvēks radīts nepatikšanām kā ugunskura dzirksteles - lidojumam.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

The only feeling that a closer intimacy has created in him for his wife is that of indulgent contempt. As there is no equality between man and woman, so there can be no respect. She is a different being. He must either look up to her as superior to himself, or down upon her as inferior. When a man does the former he is more or less in love, and love to John Ingerfield is an unknown emotion. Her beauty, her charm, her social tact — even while he makes use of them for his own purposes, he despises as the weapons of a weak nature.