Character: Mr. pond

It is not always clear whether it is philanthropy, love for people, for man or humanity. There is a difference. I think he (Dr. Andrew Glenlyon Campbell) less concerned about the individual than about the society or race.

History always seems meaningless, if you lose sight of what really happened. That's why Newspapers are so boring.

A good hostess, by definition, one that will force the two guests to communicate when they're not located, and separate them as soon as they start to get a taste. But sometimes they cause real harm. See, they stop the conversation that's not worth it to start it all over again. And this is no better than murder! <...> The conversation - is sacred, because it is so light, so thin, so piddling, if you will; she is so fragile and useless, and its so easy to destroy. To shorten her life - worse than murder, it's infanticide! All the same what to kill the baby that is trying to be born. She can never return to life, not to rise from the dead. Good and easy conversation will not be adjusted, it is destroyed, you will not be able to pick up the pieces. I remember a great conversation Trefusis, which began due to the fact that over the house and thunder boomed in the garden, the cat mewed, and someone joked that it is the collapse and end. And gahegan immediately created a charming theory, directly derived from cats and crashes, and started with us a great interview about the situation on the continent. <...> Then the conversation just started, and it was a sacred thing, for it should not have to start again. If she knocked us off stride, and then had the audacity to say that we can talk about this another time. Can? Is it possible to negotiate with a cloud, so she again opened up right over the roof and tie the cat in the garden, but still in time to pull her tail, and give Gahagan quite champagne, in order to inspire him to such a stupid theory? It could happen and then never again.

The responsible person, as a rule, I like to be irresponsible.

People usually in no hurry to agree until you calm down in his bed. People rarely agree completely to the end.

... the most glaring errors occur because we're pulling a quote out of context and then treat it is not quite correct. So when given the most mundane, obvious truth, they may be taken almost as ridiculous.