All thinking (is) an effort to make thought escape from the thinker's mind past all obstacles as completely as possible: all society is an attempt to seise and influence and coerce each thought as it appears and force it to yield to another.

“How much, let me note, depends upon trousers; the intelligent head is entirely …”

“... before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produc…”

“He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us…”

“To give a truthful account of London society at that or indeed at any other tim…”