When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to - it leaves nothing.

She is elegant rather than belle.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's.

All theological lore is growing distasteful to me. All my recent excursions into such fields proves it to be a shifting, hypothetical, doubt-fostering, dusty, and unprofitable study.

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.

When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing.

I don’t ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.

Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.