Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.

But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.