Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little sheets of paper, speak to us, arouse us, terrify us, comfort us, open their hearts to us as brothers.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them

There are two freedoms--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.