How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilized society, a prison.