We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.