It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Peace is not a passive but an active condition, not a negation but an affirmation.

The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.