I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

Anything you can imagine you can make real.

There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.