There was really no law against a man standing on a doorstep; but if the police of the Suppression of Vice had found him, they would probably have arrested himNarrator
My people are not educated; they will not be, save by a miracle. And yet they ask for something else, and they ask for it because they are human beingsAuberon Quin
What a strange thing is tradition; how if it be a good tradition, it seizes hold of men with all the tyranny of a teaching or a creed!Narrator
How comes it that we, who have stood in the presence of death, who have given up joy, cannot bear the burdens and meet the old watch-wordsAdam Wayne
The tree that bends to the tempest often escapes better than the tree which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticityNarrator
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginningNarrator
The evening sky that seemed to cup the world in one giant's bowlNarrator
The meanness of his dress was accentuated by the strange fact that, while the rest of his habiliments were those of a poor man, his sword was hung in a rich and decorated beltNarrator
That which we played in our childhood will be played bigger and grimmer by our great-grandchildrenNarrator
I tell you that if you ask anything from England or from freedom, because you were born Englishmen and free, there is no Englishman will refuse youAdam Wayne