So glorious does love transfigure its object~Tarzan
She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin.
My longing was beyond the power of opposition;
Leave to a Thark his head and one hand and he may yet conquer.
If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me.
I had learned from Kantos Kan the secret of opening these gates, and in another moment my twenty great fighting men stood within the doomed city of Zodanga.
Dear old Woola, she said; no love could be deeper than yours, yet it never offends. Would that men might pattern themselves after you!
Come, then, cried Tarzan, and prove your loyalty. It were better to die now than to live in slavery forever.
Captain Billings, he drawled finally, if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass.
But this I do know that since you have told me that ten years have elapsed since I departed from this earth I have lost all respect for time—I am commencing to doubt that such a thing exists other tha...
My civilization is not even skin deep - it does not go deeper than my clothes.
To me there always seems a way to gain the opposite side of an obstacle. If one cannot pass over it, or below it, or around it, why then there is but a single alternative left, and that is to pass...
The countless unnamed jewels of Mars,
Swarthy,
Pint of champagne.
Not once did I question either my sanity or my wakefulness.
Likes
Genial
But on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent.
Your Paris is more dangerous than my savage jungles, Paul, concluded Tarzan,