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

"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."

"The idea came to him, not for the first time, that most of the things which people buy in the belief that they are lu…"

"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."