I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.
"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.