"Green in nature is one thing, green in in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; br…"

"For the Philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy; …"

"At the age of thirty, or thereabouts, this young Nobleman had not only had every experience that life has to offer, b…"

"Time, unfortunately, though it makes animals and vegetables bloom and fade with amazing punctuality, has no such simp…"

"While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscu…"

"Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, a potting shed, a wall where peaches ripen, than to burn li…"

"Chairs and tables, however richly gilt and carved, sofas, resting on lions' paws with swans' necks curving under them…"

"The trumpeters, ranging themselves side by side in order, blow one terrific blast: — 'THE TRUTH! at which Orlando wok…"

"The sound of the trumpets died away and Orlando stood stark naked. No human being, since the world began, has ever lo…"

"He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the…"