Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.