It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.

Excuse me, sir?” “Do you wish to become a shepherd of souls? A minister of our church?” “No,” replied Hugh, frowning. “Why would I wish to?” “Your concern with souls, milord, invites me to believe...

As with Jack, the discriminating milieu of loneliness moved Hugh to raise the stakes of solitude, not from a wish to spare himself the sapping drudgery of a conventional, passionless marriage, but rather to gamble...

The light that illumines it, and reveals to a man the cathedral of his soul, can be of many strengths – from a candle to a sun – but it burns on one fuel only:...

A boy adopts a hero for two reasons: because a hero captivates his soul and serves as a projection of his innermost self; and, because a hero seems to have solved many problems that may...