We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through al….

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them..

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature..

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all ha….

There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized pla….

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours..

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang..

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth..

We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes..

Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, ….

We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to ab….

Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band, but human nature is like an iron ring. You can go round and round it, you ….

How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?.

The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker,….

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Not….

Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is b….

Now, after these things were done, the Pharaoh and his Queen drove through the hosts of Egypt in their golden chariot, and received the homage of the….

It is a hard thing when one has shot sixty-five lions or more, as I have in the course of my life, that the sixty-sixth should chew your leg like a q….

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them ….

So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They ….

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become….