One writer says that Brown's peculiar monomania made him to be "dreaded by the Missourians as a supernatural being." Sure enough, a hero in the midst of us cowards is always so dreaded. He is just that thing. He shows himself superior to nature. He has a spark of divinity in him.英文原著 · 《A Plea for Captain John Brown》
Balfour, proposing that England join in a European combination in Spain's favor. Balfour's refusal is common knowledge, except to the monomaniac with his complex. Next came the action of Lord Cromer, and finally that moment in Manila Bay when England took her stand by our side and Germany saw she would have to fight us both, if she fought at all.英文原著 · 《A Straight Deal》
"Poverty! the poverty of a company in the city of London! _Allons donc._ Well, sir, for years after this all Europe, even Russia, advanced in civilization, and opened their medical schools to women; so did the United States: only the pig-headed Briton stood stock-still, and gloried in his minority of one; as if one small island is likely to be right in its monomania, and all civilized nations wrong.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Amongst the few things that survived the fire was a photograph--of whom do you think? Shifty Dick. The dog had kept his word, and gone into trade."
"Confound him!" said Little; "he is always crossing my path, that fellow. You seem quite to forget that all this time I am in agonies of suspense. What do I care about Shifty Dick? He is nothing to me."
"Of course not. I am full of the fellow; a little more, and he'll make a monomaniac of me. Carden offers L200 for his capture; and we got an inkling he was coming this way again.英文原著 · 《Put Yourself in His Place》