Adeline Whirry

“Our orthodox friends need not be told that all merit in this world is comparative; and once for all, we desire to say that where anything which involves qualities or character is asserted, we must be understood to mean "under the circumstances.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“For Cortés, the conquest was a struggle of good against evil, of the true god against false gods, of superior beings against inferior beings.”
― Laura Esquivel, Malinche

“Buying loyalty can be as effective as fear when one’s rival is poorer than oneself.”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master