We used to take things up, you know, and look at them, and wonder and wonder and wonder, till at last there was born a thought and the world became visible.

It is curiosity that will lead us to the next great discovery.

We must take things up; and think and think and think till one day there will come knowledge, and we shall see the universe." Joan always avoided getting excited when she thought of it.
"I love to make you excited," Flossie had once confessed to her in the old student days.

"You look so ridiculously young and you are so pleased with yourself, laying down the law." She did not know she had given way to it.

He was leaning back in his chair, looking at her; and the tired look she had noticed in his eyes, when she had been introduced to him in the drawing-room, had gone out of them.
During the coffee, Mrs.Denton beckoned him to come to her; and Miss Greyson crossed over and took his vacant chair.