I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.

There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.