Nancy

“This, too, is a shared experience of the human race: what reduces one man to despair is beneath even his neighbor's notice.”
― Mark Smeltz, The Wreck of the Melville

“Of course," he muttered. "In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is itself a form of madness.”
― Mark Smeltz, The Wreck of the Melville

“For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.”
― Arthur Machen, The Terror

“Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.”
― Guy de Maupassant