"...the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly..."
"...until one has known the wilderness one cannot begin to understand the cities."
"Nothing is grander than that which has fallen."
"...there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country…"
"...Petersburg... all the powers bestowed on her by Heaven..."
“The goddess Kali; the goddess of love and death.” “Of death, perhaps.”
“…the city had grown like a tree, forming ring after ring…”
"…the joy and sorrow, the life and death, the grandeur and decay, of five thousand slow revolving years."
“…rambling the streets of London.”
“He saw the darkening lands slipping away past him…”
"...irrepressible... even among dust and stones."
