"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.