Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.

Man needs to choose, not just accept his destiny.

Claire, if you don’t move, I will have served two tours of duty only to die in this bed.

[Duration is] the form which the succession of our conscious states assumes when our ego lets itself live, when it refrains from separating its present state from its former state.

She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved.

Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

Like a tree losing its leaves. I forget even the thing I was thinking.

You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.