you may subdue and conquer the temperament of your nature, to do all things well-pleasing to him, and that may irradiate and strengthen your souls

In an article in English on “The Adventurers” in the play, we learn that “nearly every character turns out to be an adventurer, with a particular gamblesome [sic] tendency of his own” (30).

My favouritemost way of de-stressing is to take a large hammer to furniture, but I don't get to do that very often.

That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.