"There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whos…"

"How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper s…"

"There comes with old age a time when the heart is no longer fusible or malleable, and must retain the form in which i…"

"He has attained supremacy in one particular line: he succeeds in inspiring a mysterious terror better than any other …"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"For all practical purposes, wheat is civilization. It produces what we euphemistically call the staff of life, a staf…"

"For power and place men may intrigue; but in order to have influence they must more or less deserve it. Power may, at…"

"No human vanity can be more pitiable than that of seeking to give an eternity of preservation to particles of dust, w…"

"All my novels are about moral questions ... Most of us want to believe in something: politics, religion, saving the w…"

"The street outside was a university bywater, once a good residential area, which had lately been reduced to the level…"