He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

How'd you like a temporary job in our shipping room?" Mr. Shanahan asked, his eyes suddenly watchful.

For an instant Mr. Newman succeeded in making it plain that he, like any man of his business experience, was meant for better things. A moment later, in an interesting ceremony which took place in his heart, Mr. Newman surrendered his well-loved white collar.

I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.