"She was almost glowing with resolution. She realized that to display moral qualities demands practice, just as much a…"

"She had rather looked down on such shops and on such clothes, but that had been ignorance and the wrong kind of sophi…"

"I don’t spend all day reading the newspapers. It can get hold of you as poisonously as the television, if you once le…"

"Upon the passage to truth, cross-currents are to be expected."

"It was, in any case, quite useless, and, like most useless things, useless almost immediately."

"'I didn't find it in the least difficult,' said Grigg. 'Those meant to succeed at a thing never do find the thing dif…"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings."

"Darkness began to drink up the last cold light upon the mountainside."

"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them."