The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?