Quotes

strongly marked with all the politeness, generosity, coolness, and firmness that ought to characterize a transaction of this nature.

In judging the position which a man should hold in the world, Sir Peregrine was very resolute in ignoring all claims made by wealth

One should always say to oneself, “No surrender”. In very truth, the star of his life was going out darkly under a cloud; but

Well, well – a carriage and three thousand a year is not the summitt of the reward nor the end of God’s judgment of

Which of us can point out many such in his circle – men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant, and not only

War, moreover, had some civilized features – it was a game. The rules were strict. The word of honor, courtesy between foes, the captured

Now in my fifties, I listen to the Girl Watchers and find myself invigorated by their moral clarity. In a frenzied age in which

You die if you have to”, agrees Harry, “but you don’t go out of your way to do it”.

On David Burnham: “He has all those wonderfully upstanding attributes like decency and self-discipline that normally make you hate a person. On him they

There was a Gibson man as well. He was always competent, assured, and sensible, not given to whim or extragance or show of emotion