“It stands on a slight eminence”
“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.”
“A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.”
“She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking some past stage on this adventurous, long, long voyage, this interminable --- this interminable life.”
“Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.”
“Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.”