The London Library

"This little body of thought, that lies before me in the shape of a book, has existed thousands of years, nor since the invention of the press can any

"Every age has its own special difficulties and dangers. The disease which specially threatens this generation is restlessness, distraction, dissipati

"One would hear considerably less of hysteria, of morphine-mania, and of other regrettable characteristics of fin-de-siecle existence, if women were t

"Oh! that the faculty would look deeper into and make themselves better acquainted with the crying evil of obesity - that dreadful tormenting parasite

"If you give anything to a Norwegian (old meat tins are always thankfully received), he will give your hand a silent grip more expressive than many wo

"Directly you are in motion you will feel quite helpless, and experience a sensation of being run away with, and it will seem as if the machine were t