(Chapter 5)
All saints can do miracles, but few can keep a hotel
(Mark Twain, Notebook)

(Chapter 6)
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse
(Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey)

(Chapter 7)
Almost all modern architecture is farce
(Diogenes Small (1797-1812), Reflections)

(Chapter 8)
Madame, appearing to imbibe Gin and It in roughly equal measures, yet manages to exude more of the gin than of the "it"
(Hugh Sykes-Davies, Obiter Dicta)

(Chapter 9)
Often I have wished myself dead, but well under my blanket, so that neither death nor man could hear me
(George Lichtenberg)

(Chapter 10)
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
(Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays)

(Chapter 11)
History, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools
(Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary)

(Chapter 12)
Water taken in moderation cannot hurt anybody
(Mark Twain)

(Chapter 13)
Solvitur ambulando
(The problem is solved by walking around)
(Latin proverb)

(Chapter 14)
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
(Oscar Wilde)

(Chapter 15)
The best-laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley,
And lea'e us nought but grief and pain
For promised joy
(Robert Burns, To a Mouse)

(Chapter 16)
As you go through, you see the great scientists, scholars, and statesmen; the thinkers, writers, actors, monarchs, and martyrs who are part of Oxford's history. By passing this doorway, you have a glimpse of the people whom Oxford has moulded, and many of whom have, in their turn, gone on to help mould the world
(Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, The Oxford Story)

(Chaper 17)
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them
(Frank Moore Colby)

(Chapter 18)
In the police-procedural, a fair degree of realism is possible, but it cannot be pushed too far for fear that the book might be as dull as the actual days of a policeman
(Julian Symons, Bloody Murder)

(Chapter 19)
At Oxford nude bathing was, and sometimes still is, indulged in, which used to cause mutual embarrassment when ladies passed by in boats
(Marilyn Yurdan, Oxford: Town and Gown)

(Chapter 20)
The moon jellyfish
like a parachute in air
sways under the waves
(Basil Swift, Collected Haiku)

(Chapter 21)
You did not come,
And marching time drew on, and wore me numb
(Thomas Hardy, A Broken Appointment)

(Chapter 22)
Duty is what one expects from others; it is not what one does oneself
(Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance)

(Chapter 23)
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office
(Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 2)

(Chapter 24)
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice
(Mark Twain, Following the Equator)

(Chapter 25)
Going by railroad I do not consider as travelling at all; it is merely being "sent" to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel
(John Ruskin, Modern Painters)

(Chapter 26)
Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her, comfort her, honour and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?
(Book of Common Prayer, Solemnization of Matrimony)

(Chapter 27)
It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded
(Edgar Watson Howe, Ventures in Common Sense)

(Chapter 28)
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went
(Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat)

(Chapter 29)
There are an awful lot of drunks about these days. It wouldn't really surprise me if you turned out to be one yourself
(Martin Amis, Other People)

(Chapter 30)
Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair-trigger balances, when a false, or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act
(James Thurber, Lanterns and Lances)

(Chapter 31)
There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play
(Max Beerbohm, Mainly on the Air)

(Chapter 32)
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally; he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses in order to justify his logic
(Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground)

(Chapter 33)
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry
(Chekhov)

(Chapter 34)
Thou hast committed--
Fornication; but that was in another country,
And besides, the wench is dead
(Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta)

(Chapter 35)
Just a song at twilight
When the lights are low
And the flick'ring shadows
Softly come and go . . .
(From the English Song Book)

(Chapter 36)
Their meetings made December June
(Tennyson)

(Chapter 37)
Sic, ne perdiderit, non cessat perdere lusor
(To recoup his losses, the gambler keeps on backing the losers)
(Ovid, Ars Amatoria)

(Chapter 38)
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day:
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn
(Shakespeare, Macbeth)

(Chapter 39)
I feel like I done when Slipper Sun
Romped 'ome a winner at 30 to 1
(A. P. Herbert, Derby Day)

(Chapter 40)
He
That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it,
And, at the best, shows but a bastard valour
(Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour)

(Chapter 41)
Light thickens and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood
(Shakespeare, Macbeth)

(Chapter 42)
No one came
On the bare platform
(Edward Thomas, Adlestrop)

(Chapter 43)
As usual he was offering explanations for what other people had not even noticed as problems
(Bryan Magee, Aspects of Wagner)

(Chapter 44)
"When my noble and learned brother gives his Judgment, they're to be let go free," said Krook, winking at us again. "And then," he added, whispering and grinning, "if that ever was to happen -- which it won't -- the birds that have never been caged would kill 'em."
(Dickens, Bleak House)

(Chapter 45)
Perchance my too much questioning offends
(Dante, Purgatorio)

(Chapter 46)
I do love to note and to observe
(Jonson, Volpone)

(Chapter 47)
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong -- as when you find a trout in the milk
(Henry Thoreau, unpublished manuscript)

(Chapter 48)
Darkness is more productive of sublime ideas than light
(Edmund Burke, On the Sublime and Beautiful)

(Chapter 49)
Where water, warm or cool, is
Good for gout -- at Aquae Sulis
(Graffito in the Pump Room, Bath, c. 1760)

(Chapter 50)
During late visits to Stinsford in old age he would often visit the unmarked grave of Louisa Harding
(Thomas Hardy, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy)

(Chapter 51)
At day's end you came,
and like the evening sun,
left an afterglow
(Basil Swift, Collected Haiku)

(Chapter 52)
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame
(Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway)

(Chapter 53)
And summed up so well that it came to far more
Than the witnesses ever had said
(Lewis Carroll, The Barrister's Dream)

(Chapter 54)
Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?
(St. Luke, ch. 15, v. 8)

(Chapter 55)
In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer
(La Rochefoucauld, Maxims)

(Chapter 56)
And as the smart ship grew
In stature, grace, and hue,
In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too
(Thomas Hardy, The Convergence of the Twain)

(Chapter 57)
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet
(Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet)

(Chapter 58)
. . . that the fair field
Of Enna, where Proserpin gathring flowrs
Her self a fairer Flowre by gloomie Dis
Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain
To seek her through the world . . .
(John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV)

(Chapter 59)
Je ne regrette rien
(French song)

(Chapter 60)
Accipe fraterno multum manantia fletu,
Aque in perpetuum, frater, ave aque vale
(Catullus, Poem CI)