The more debris there is the more it will show the governor's activity.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.