Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health […]

In fact, a horse that has been accustomed to be attended by a stableman will want to have little niceties done to him that a hawbuck of a groom never thinks of doing.

It is worth noting again that the word [Friedrich] Nietzsche uses is Macht, not Reich, and thus might be better understood as personal strength rather than political power. It does not mean power in the nasty, jackbooted sense that still sends flutters up the European spine. The term means something like effective self-realization and expression.

Dey kept warm wide de bed clothes and de knitten clothes dey had.