Like the reference to the pilot of the Argo, it was poetic mystery to them; and yet it filled them with a noble curiosity to know much and a desire to study hard, and to live hopefully and worthily.

Like the outline of some unknown mountain range, it allured them to higher outlooks and wider distances.
"He talked to us so grandly," said Gretchen to Mrs.Woods one evening, "that I did not know half that he was saying; but it made me feel that I might be somebody, and I do intend to be.

It is a good thing to have a teacher with great expectations." "Yes," said Mrs.Woods, "when there is so little to expect.

People don't take a lot of nothing and make a heap of something in this world.

It is all like a lot of feathers thrown against the wind.