I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.

Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.

The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wondrous crystalline world of the microscope, where silence reigns, circumscribed by its own horizon, a blindingly white arena - all this is so enticing that I cannot describe it.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

Solitude was corrupting me.