It is remarkable…what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than …”

“I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to …”

“The cold stream of visual impressions failed him now as if the eye were a cup t…”

“There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.”