After all, I reflected, I was like my neighbours; and then I smiled, comparing myself with other men, comparing my active goodwill with the lazy cruelty of their neglect.

“It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will ta…”

“Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my …”

“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and…”

“you can not run away from weakness; you must fight it out... or perish.”