Sublime

And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie.

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers.

Public sympathies shifted radically when Alexander Berkman, an anarchist and longtime consort of Emma Goldman, walked into Frick’s office on July 23, shot him twice in the neck, and then stabbed him three times. Amazingly, Frick wrestled Berkman to the ground and prevented his swallowing a lethal poison as he was being subdued by guards. Frick then

which the nature of many women, after all, as the general examples show, cannot endure.

Pulcheria Alexandrovna was emotional, but not sentimental, timid and yielding, but only to a certain point. She could give way and accept a great deal even of what was contrary to her convictions, but there was a certain barrier fixed by honesty, principle and the deepest convictions which nothing would induce her to cross.

all is in a man’s hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice,