Also, though not over-elderly, he was not over-young.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.