Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.