The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.

I might give my life for my friend, but he had better not ask me to do up a parcel.

For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once.