Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded.

The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.