A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth.

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.

The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

The sole equality on earth is death.