"To the masculine mind there appears to be something strangely exhilarating in the thought of a woman being abruptly t…"

"Even in my childhood my sympathy for the heroes in the fairy tales was always keenest at the moment when they waved t…"

"It was well to have thus once really lived."

"The record of the race, hitherto accepted as the truth about ourselves, has been the story of facts and conditions as…"

"No ruler is ever really dethroned by his subjects. No hand but his own ever takes the crown from his head... When he …"

"Firstly, because one suffers from being forced to dwell in a house steadily falling to decay; a trial to the housekee…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"