For he did not, he would have said, care for women; he never felt at home or at ease with them; and that monstrous creature beginning to be talked about, the New Woman of the nineties, filled him with...
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...
_ 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.
The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally be shadowed by the still darker cloud of being t...
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...
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...
Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?
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...
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.
If we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
He recognized that they were likely to have far more personal reasons for anxiety than he had himself. Mallinson, for instance, was engaged to a girl in England; Barnard might be married; Miss Brinklo...
Are you interested, by the way, in etchings? I have one or two here that are considered to be rather choice.
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...