I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

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

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

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