Thomas Love Peacock

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.
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The truth, I am convinced, is that there is no longer a poetical audience among the higher class of minds, that moral, political, and physical science have entirely withdrawn from poetry the attention of all whose attention is worth having; and that the poetical reading public being composed of the mere dregs of the intellectual community, the most sufficing passport to their favour must rest on the mixture of a little easily-intelligible portion of mawkish sentiment with an absolute negation of reason and knowledge.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book -- it is a plaything.
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