He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a d….

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured..

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority..

Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is not a scrap of diff….

Compulsion is the death of friendship..

...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to brin….

I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations how to set the….

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits..

Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, con….

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese..

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do..

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it..

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual ….

It is a great while since I felt the grind of bone under my saw,' he added, smiling with anticipation..

For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even less of this valua….

You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age eq….

There is a systematic flocci-nauci-nihili-pilification of all other aspects of existence that angers me..

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays..

Why there you are, Stephen,' cried Jack. 'You are come home, I find.' That is true,' said Stephen with an affectionate look: he prized statements of ….

...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too….