“A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed
“When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busy
“Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist
“Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door
“Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
“Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.