Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

As leopard feels at home with leopard.

The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.