"I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have…"

"The more we progress the more we tend to progress. We advance not in arithmetical but in geometrical progression. We …"

"When you look closely it is a question whether that which is a wrong to the present community may not prove to have b…"

"I can tell you that it is no game for children, and I will confess that, in spite of my nine campaigns, I felt myself…"

"The whole doctrine of original sin, the Fall, the vicarious atonement, the placation of the Almighty by blood—all thi…"

"What I hope is that, when the whole district is full of these little rifle clubs, we may then get a central range to …"

"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hopes seem hardly worth havin…"

"You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought."

"The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished."

"What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations o…"