Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers