What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much we are, how little we transmit.

He wanted—what did he want most in life? I think his distinctive craving is best expressed as fun—fun in companionship.

For fifteen years Mr. Polly was a respectable shopkeeper in Fishbourne. Years they were in which every day was tedious, and when they were gone it was as if they had gone in a flash.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.