I shall command the sunset.
But, according to my science of government, I shall wait until conditions are favorable.

There are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

“Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise,” he says, “you’ll always be controlled by the world.”

She wasn’t able to endure being at a disadvantage and, given this unwillingness, I suppose she had begun dealing in subterfuges when she was very young in order to keep that cool, insolent smile turned to the world and yet satisfy the demands of her hard, jaunty body.