silence is not weakness and decency is not pride

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

Introductions, that is, belong to the masterpieces and classics of the world, to the great and ancient and accepted things; and I am here introducing a short, small story of my own which appeared in The Evening News about ten months ago.

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science.

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.