Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.