When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.