Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.