There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.