The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

But a reader's ambition knows no bounds.

The pity is that the public will demand and find a moral in my book, or worse they may take it in some serious way, and on the honour of a gentleman, there is not one single serious word in it.

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life.