Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.
When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.
We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.