"Sometimes the king went so far as to avow his complicity. These are audacities of monarchical terrorism. The disfigur…"

"The laws against vagabonds have always been very rigorous in England. England, in her Gothic legislation, seemed to b…"

"They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet."

"Any one who has lived a solitary life knows how deeply seated monologue is in one's nature. Speech imprisoned frets t…"

"Fortunately Ursus had never gone into the Low Countries; there they would certainly have weighed him, to ascertain wh…"

"Ursus had communicated to Homo a portion of his talents: such as to stand upright, to restrain his rage into sulkines…"

"By friction gold loses every year a fourteen hundredth part of its bulk. This is what is called the Wear. Hence it fo…"

"He did not smile, as we have already said, but he used to laugh; sometimes, indeed frequently, a bitter laugh. There …"

"Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland and Countess of Southampton, had a marmoset for a page. Frances Sutton, Baroness Dudley…"

"It is very fortunate that kings cannot err. Hence their contradictions never perplex us."