He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.

In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears witness to its antiquity--had never been commercially anything more important than a coasting port with a fairly large local trade in ox-hides and indigo.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!