‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of rapacious licence and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance.