Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. - Charles Dickens

I have a heart to be stabbed in or shot in, I have no doubt, and, of course, if it ceased to beat, I would cease to be. But you know what I mean. I have no softness there, no — sympathy — sentiment — nonsense.

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them

I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.