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

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

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

as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.