It is no longer possible to accept the benefits of civilization and at the same time deny the supernatural basis upon which it is based.

Never get mixed up in a Welsh wrangle. It doesn't end in blows like an Irish one, but goes on forever.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.