He was a wanderer between two worlds and must ever wander...
_ What do the [monks] do? [...]_ They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom._ But that isn't *doing* anything._ Then, madam, they do nothing._ I thought as much.
You cannot judge the importance of things by the noise they make.
When you grow older you miss that eagerness; life may be happy, you may have health and wealth and love and success, but the odds are that you never look forward as you once did to a single golden day...
He was not much of a nature-worshipper, but he perceived that nature here was certainly at her best and liveliest. He gave her, as it were, full marks and a nod of approval, feeling that she would do...
He said this with such simplicity that Conway could not help responding: I’m not much of an authority on what people call high finance. It was a lead, and the American accepted it without the slightes...
If we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without
When you are getting on in years it is nice to sit by the fire and drink a cup of tea and listen to the school bell sounding dinner, call-over, prep., and lights out. Chips always wound up the clock a...
The will of God or the lunacy of man - it seemed to him that you could take your choice, if you wanted a good enough reason for most things. Or, alternatively, the will of man and the lunacy of God.
Rutherford assented. Yes, I liked him a good deal too, though I also saw surprisingly little of him, if you measure it in time. And then there was a somewhat odd silence, during which it was evident t...
Now let me begin by sketching for you a very agreeable picture. You are still, I should say, a youngish man by the world’s standards; your life, as people say, lies ahead of you; in the normal course...
Miss Brinklow, however, was not yet to be sidetracked. What do the lamas do? she continued.They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation and to the pursuit of wisdom.But that isn't doing anything.Th...
Mallinson, who had been somberly enduring these pleasantries, now interposed with something of the shrill acerbity of the barrack-square. Our stay won’t be long, he announced curtly. We shall pay for...
Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon...
But now I’m beginning to care again—a little—and it hurts—it’s really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears.
Why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading a newspaper or chatting with the girls she worked with a...
She really did possess a love for humanity, and the further removed humanity was, both in space and time, the more she loved it.
Where had they all gone to, he often pondered; those threads he had once held together, how far had they scattered, some to break, others to weave into unknown patterns? The strange randomness of the...
Think for a moment. You will have time to read—never again will you skim pages to save minutes, or avoid some study lest it prove too engrossing. You have also a taste for music—here, then, are your s...