Edition Topics

I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house, but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. He bought, for example, a common edition of Horace, of which he tore off gradually a couple of pages, read them first, and then sent them down as a sacrifice to Cloacina: this was so much time fairly gained.
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)