Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Variety, individuality, peculiarity, eccentricity and indeed crankiness are agreeable to the British mind; they make life more interesting.

[Did you] ever know a sincere emotion to express itself in a subordinate clause?