Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.
Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.
Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.
The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.