💬 Quotes

"It is probable that if her life had been a cow she would have led her by the tail out of a burning barn. But the mob, her tormentors, made her situation precarious."

"For a trade-girl she was of a distinct and individual appearance. She was not like other girls, who were pale, anemic-looking, and heavy-eyed."

"None of the juvenile debating societies that meet in the basement club-rooms of the Bowery ever discuss the questions of the origin of evil, the fate of the soul, or the finality of death."

"The girl, moaning and sobbing, hurried blindly away. She ran swiftly through many dark streets. She stepped into the waters of the dark river."

"O for a muse of fire, that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention!"

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; / For he to-day that sheds his blood with me / Shall be my brother."

"Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent anything that tends to laughter, more than I invent or is invented on me."

"There is some soul of goodness in things evil, / Would men observingly distil it out."

"By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, / Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; / It yearns me not if men my garments wear; / Such outward things dwell not in my desires: / But if it be a sin to covet honour, / I am the most offending soul alive."

"He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, / Will stand a tip-toe when this day is named, / And rouse him at the name of Crispian."

"It is a strange thing, this human life, made up as it is of inevitable woe and fleeting joy, yet wherein hope springs ever fresh, like water in a desert place."

"Vengeance is a hard master to serve, and those who take his wages find bitterness at the last, though the cup may seem sweet to the lips at first tasting."

"Fate leads us by strange roads, and often those we count our bitterest enemies are but the instruments forged to shape us to our true destiny."

"A brave man dies once, but a coward dies a thousand deaths in the quiet chambers of his own craven heart."

"There is a power greater than the gods of Anahuac or the God of Christendom, a power that binds the hearts of men together across the gulf of differing creeds and alien blood."

"Memory is the ghost that haunts the house of life, and of all memories, those of our lost youth and ancient wrongs are the most unfading."

"We are petty individuals, but we have the Law. And that's what makes us-men."

"Cain went out and built a city—yes, down the East, away from Eden; and that's all the use you'll ever have of empire-building."

"He has looked upon a woman. Man is a feeble thing."

"Beholding a king before them, they gave it to him... It's the order of the white man; he has more brains than they."