"This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb."
- Stephen Crane
"Every sin is the result of a colaboration"
"A man with a full stomach and the respect of his fellows had no business to scold about anything that he might think to be wrong in the ways of the universe, or even with the ways of society. Let the ..."
"The moon had been lighted and was hung in a treetop."
"It appeared that the swift wings of their desires would have shattered against the iron gates of the impossible."
"Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night."
"A learned man came to me once.He said, "I know the way, -- come."And I was overjoyed at this.Together we hastened.Soon, too soon, were weWhere my eyes were useless,And I knew not the ways of my feet.I..."
"The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")"
"He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range."
"When the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: "Woe to my knowledge!I intended to see good white landsAnd bad black lands—But the scene is grey."