“I don't expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!”

“He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.”

“People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.”

“Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters - even to the very belief in life.”

“Sometimes we bring to a struggle or cause the gifts we see most clearly, a courage, a strength, or a charm others have told us we have. But often we find more is asked of us than that, more than we...”

“We believe world peace is inevitable.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”