"The mind is ductile, very much so: but images, ductilely received into it, need a certain time to harden and bake in …"

"Well, there is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow…"

"To be full of warm, earnest words, and heart-felt protestations, is to create a scene; and well-bred people dislike f…"

"Now, young friend, perhaps you think that Tacitus, like me, is only melancholy; but he's more — he's ugly. A vast dif…"

"Yes, learn from me that, though the sorrows of the world are great, its wickedness — that is, its ugliness — is small."

"I myself have known adversity, and know it still. But for that, do I turn cynic? No, no: it is small beer that sours.…"

"Tacitus — he is the most extraordinary example of a heretic; not one iota of confidence in his kind. What a mockery t…"

"Look, you, you on others' behalf ask for money; you, a fellow with a face as long as my arm. Hark ye, now: there is s…"

"It is one of the imbecilities of the suspicious person to fancy that every stranger, however absent-minded, he sees s…"

"At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, a…"