“It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse, at any single… [Read more…]
September 23, 2010
“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 146.
September 23, 2010
“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.” Comment of Dorian Gray; Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003), 153.
September 23, 2010
“The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing… [Read more…]
September 3, 2010
“It is fortunate for this community [London] that I am not a criminal.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Last Bow, ”The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans” in The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume 2 (New York: B&N Classics, 2003), 412.
August 2, 2010
”. . . it was difficult to believe that that these eager and open-faced young fellows were in very truth a dangerous gang of murderers, whose minds had suffered such complete moral perversion that they took a horrible pride in their proficiency at the business, and looked with deepest respect at the man who had… [Read more…]
November 11, 2010
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