Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise.

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.

It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.