When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw’t away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me,...

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

This is all a tale of an older world and a forgotten countryside. At this moment of time change has come; a screaming line of steel runs through the heather of no-man’s-land, and the holiday-maker...

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

He who would valiant be against all disaster; let him in constancy follow the Master. There’s no discouragement shall make him once relent; his first avowed intent to be a pilgrim.

He felt singularly light-hearted, and the immediate cause was his safety razor. A week ago he had bought the thing in a sudden fit of enterprise, and now he shaved in five minutes, where before...

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could...

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

The eyes were of a color which he could never decide on, afterwards when he told the story he used to say they were the color of everything in Spring.

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

All this was very loose guessing, and I don’t pretend it was ingenious or scientific. I wasn’t any kind of Sherlock Holmes. But I have always fancied I had a kind of instinct about questions...

The secret belongs only to the Maker of good and faithful dogs.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other’s throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring...

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

It was strange how fear had gone,now that we knew the worst and had a fighting man by our side.

Without humility there can be no humanity

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.