Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel HawthorneShall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.
Nathaniel HawthorneHow is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!
Nathaniel Hawthorne