They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn't name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered.
I read no newspaper now but Ritchie's, and in that chiefly the advertisements, for they contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
There is only one thing that a philosopher can be relied on to do, and that is, to contradict other philosophers.
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.