My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG, which is infamous, or MY COUNTRY IS ALWAYS RIGHT, which is imbecile.

But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not suppose that I intend any preposterous comparison, when I observe that Homer was farther removed in time from Troy than I am from the Napoleonic wars; yet he spoke to the Greeks for 2,000 years and more.

I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.