"Marilyn Marsh, who had about had it with Spain, declared to him [the old Spanish man]: … But it redounds to your nati…"

"One of the things I miss about teaching is that students would tell me what I ought to read. One of my students, back…"

"Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to “penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,” as …"

"[N]othing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it, from outside, by pe…"

"[I]t is sometimes pleasant to stone a martyr, no matter how much we may admire him."

"More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations."

"'Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed…"

"'Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion."

"Is a man a salvage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile manners? Or is salvagery but a faint taint in the natural man'…"

"The night-sea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward …"