But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.

I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.