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

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!

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.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.