I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

In all the ages the Roman Church has owned slaves, bought and sold slaves, authorized and encouraged her children to trade in them. . . . There were the texts; there was no mistaking their meaning; . . . she was doing in all this thing what the Bible had mapped out for her to do. So unassailable was her position that in all the centuries she had no word to say against human slavery.

Adam was the luckiest man in the world. He had no mother-in-law.