"The myriads that raise the cry of hunger wail in the greatest empire in the world."

"I love the flesh. I'm a pagan. “Who are they who speak evil of the clay? The very stars are made of clay like mine!”"

"Age is never so old as youth would measure it."

"The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in t…"

"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog."

"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

"Life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do."

"There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is no…"

"He lacked the wisdom, and the only way for him to get it was to buy it with his youth; and when wisdom was his, youth…"

"Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest."