There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself.

"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.