For instance, in Sparta they would have hurled me into the gulf, on account of my big head, and deformed shoulder.

Nowadays, people are less merciful, and let men like us drag the cripple's mark through life.

God sees the heart; but men cannot forget their ancestor, the clod of earth--the outside is always more to them than the inside.
If my head had only been smaller, and some angel had smoothed my shoulder, I might perhaps now be a cardinal, wear purple, and instead of riding under a grey tilt, drive in a golden coach, with well-fed black steeds.

Your body was measured with a straight yard stick, but there's trouble in other places.

So your father's name was Adam, and he really bore no other ?" "No, certainly not." "That's too little by half.