convictions ... are always getting in the way of opportunities.
nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.
After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.