“Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.”

“Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.”

“ 'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.”

“Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at their best at breakfast, nor is the week before Christmas their happiest time.”

“You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get ”