To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.