The tremendous tragedy in which he had been involved - it was evident he was a fugitive from Weybridge - had driven him to the very verge of his reason.

I can speak Japanese fairly well, but I have no understanding whatsoever of written Japanese.

For water on a heath, where there are scarcely any objects of reflection, has a sheety appearance; yet in such a situation, and towards the close of day, a cheering one.

His creed of determinism was such that it almost amounted to a vice, and quite amounted, on its negative side, to a renunciative philosophy which had cousinship with that of Schopenhauer and Leopardi.