I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.