
Variant: He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
Source: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
Source: Rhetoric as Philosophy (1980), p. 51
Variant: He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
Source: The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
“Refusal noted and cordially declined.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 1 “Things Get Worse” section 6 (p. 43)
1860s, Criticisms on "The Origin of the Species" (1864)
“I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played.”
Biographical note http://web.archive.org/20031024234038/homepage.mac.com/splitcube/arvopart/biography.html
“Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.”
The History of America, Vol. I (1777), Book IV, pp. 281–282