Thomas De Quincey Video

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

The child is father of the man.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don't know.