Is there any reason why she should come instead of any other girl ?" "Yes," said Mr.Stone.
"What reason ?" "Because she has no friends." So awkward a reply was not expected by Cecilia; she looked at the floor, forced to search within her soul.

Silence lasted several seconds; then Mr.Stone's voice rose above a whisper: "'The reason was not far to seek.

Man, differentiated from the other apes by his desire to know, was from the first obliged to steel himself against the penalties of knowledge.

Like animals subjected to the rigours of an Arctic climate, and putting forth more fur with each reduction in the temperature, man's hide of courage thickened automatically to resist the spear-thrusts dealt him by his own insatiate curiosity.

In those days of which we speak, when undigested knowledge, in a great invading horde, had swarmed all his defences, man, suffering from a foul dyspepsia, with a nervous system in the latest stages of exhaustion, and a reeling brain, survived by reason of his power to go on making courage.