the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.