What good have all your sermons done?
It is all a vain sacrifice, and the end will be defeat and misery for you.

Add to all this the fact that this new work will call for the best and most Christian labor, and that some good Christian man will take it if you don't--and I don't see, Philip, how you can possibly think of such a thing as refusing this opportunity." "It certainly is a splendid opportunity," murmured Philip.

"I wonder why they happened to pitch on me for the place!" "That's easy enough.

Every one knows that you could fill that chair better than almost any other man in the country." "Do you mean by 'every one' a little woman by the name of Sarah ?" asked Philip, with a brief return of his teasing habit.
"No, sir, I mean all the professors and people in Fairview and all the thinking people of Milton and every one who knows you, Philip.

Every one knows that whatever else you lack, it isn't brains." "I'd like to borrow a few just now, though, for I seem to have lost most of mine.