It’s a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called but few are chosen.”

“I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity

“Quelles manières,” he said to himself, for in certain circumstances he felt he could express his sentiments more forcibly in French.

Don’t you think he may be pursuing an ideal that is hidden in a cloud of unknowing—like an astronomer looking for a star that only a mathematical calculation tells him exists?”

it was obvious that unless she took care she would develop an unbecoming corpulence.