There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

We have the best government that money can buy.

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.