"The moment when a man hears that a girl's fiance has died only that day is the last moment that that man should ever …"

"Dr. MacDonald was a big heavily-built man in his late forties, with that well-leathered and spuriously tough look you…"

"Every man is what environment and heredity make him."

"Nature wanted to show mankind, an irreverent, over-venturesome mankind, just how puny and pitifully helpless a thing …"

"To all things an end, to every night its dawn; even to the longest night when dawn never comes, there comes at last t…"

"Many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could …"

"She plunged down and kept on going down, driving down to the black floor of the Arctic, driven down by the madly spin…"

"Major Rutledge of the Buffs, Eton and Sandhurst as to intonation, millimetrically tooth-brushed as to moustache, Savi…"

"There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—t…"

"Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more…"