This book was so unnecessarily long! I can't honestly recommend this book to anyone except an individual bent on writing a book in the style of this age. However, that being said, there were a few amusing gems that seem to still apply today.
"Few men who feel the pressure of small needs are so nobly resolute not to dress up their inevitably self-interested desires in a pretext of better motives. In these matters, he was conscious that his life would bear the closest scrutiny, and perhaps the consciousness encouraged a little defiance towards the critical strictness of persons whose celestial intimacies seemed not to improve their domestic manners, and whose lofty aims were not needed to account for their actions."
"He's a cursed, white-blooded pedantic cock's comb!"
"Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man could not only chose his wife, but his wife's husband."
"He had also taken too much in the shape of muddy political talk. A stimulant dangerously disturbing to his farming conservatism, which consisted in holding that whatever is, is bad, and any change is likely to be worse."
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