He knew he should not have spared time for tears, and would not, ever again.

He had a feel for it, the capacity to stir a headful of unrelated facts until they congealed into a pattern arrowing the future. Dutch.

One calling for optimism, pragmatism, and a belief that all problems might be solved, with enough courage, determination, good.

There’s an old saying that anyone can make colonel on his own, but it takes a wife to make a general.

The bell announced that there was food on the table and a women in the kitchen.

The only bad parts of it were cooking for one and eating alone.

But he is dying faster than he should. The better a man is at business, the worse in retirement.

When you examined the facts judicially, and asked which would provide the greatest good for the greatest number, there could be only one answer.

Since The Day, he had lived in the imperative present, not daring to plan beyond the next meal or the next day. This bit of paper tacked on peeling white paint abruptly enlarged his perspective, as if, stumbling through a black tunnel, he saw, or thought he saw, a chink of light. If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

Some nations and some people melt in the heat of crisis and come apart like fat in the pan. Others meet the challenge and harden. I think you’re going to harden.