To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful.

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows.

I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence.

... happy husbands and wives can hear each other say the same thing over and over again without being tired.