I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.
Golf is a mental disorder.
Teach me to speak the language of men.
It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them.
And could she love where she feared?
He longed for the little cabin and the sun-kissed sea – for the cool interior of the well-built house, and for the never-ending wonders of the many books.
The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.
And what difference does it make, anyway, what you like and what you don’t like? You are here for but an instant, and you mustn’t take yourself too seriously.
There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take – it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.
Jane saw the little note and ignored it, for she was very angry and hurt and mortified, but – she was a woman, and so eventually she picked it up and read it. MY.
I should at least die as I had lived – fighting.
I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus; unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.
I wish to Heaven that I might forget. It would be so much easier than to go through life always remembering what might have been.
So this was love! I had escaped it for all the years I had roamed the five continents and their encircling seas; in spite of beautiful women and urging opportunity; in spite of a half-desire for love and a constant search for my ideal, it had remained for me to fall furiously and hopelessly in love with a creature from another world, of a species similar possibly, yet not identical with mine.
Scarcely had they closed their eyes than the terrifying cry of a panther rang out from the jungle behind them. Closer and closer it came until they could hear the great beast directly beneath them. For an hour or more they heard it sniffing and clawing at the trees which supported their platform, but at last it roamed away across the beach, where Clayton could see it clearly in the brilliant moonlight – a great, handsome beast, the largest he had ever seen.
Yes, your man, Jane Porter. Your savage, primeval man come out of the jungle to claim his mate – the woman who ran away from him,” he added almost fiercely.
Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.
There is much which I have left out; much which I have not dared to tell; but you will find the story of his second search for Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, even more remarkable than was his first.
John!” cried Lady Greystoke, running toward him, “how could I have been mistaken? I-” but the rest of the sentence was lost as Tarzan of the Apes sprang into the room and taking his mate in his arms covered her lips with kisses.
He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.