Source: Gone Girl
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 211.
Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Dedication, later published as "A Prayer in Time of War"
A Belgian Christmas Eve (1915)
Context: p>Grant us the single heart once more
That mocks no sacred thing,
The Sword of Truth our fathers wore
When Thou wast Lord and King. Let darkness unto darkness tell
Our deep unspoken prayer;
For, while our souls in darkness dwell,
We know that Thou art there.</p
“Once you wrap your brain around playing your age, it's a very, very positive thing…”
On being an older actor in “Lou Diamond Phillips Gets Paternal on 'Prodigal Son'” https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/television/info-2019/lou-diamond-phillips-returns-on-prodigal-son.html in AARP Magazine (2019 Sept 23)
“Irrelevant things may happen to you, but once they have happened they all become relevant.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Priest
Context: the battling Reformer too is, from time to time, a needful and inevitable phenomenon. Obstructions are never wanting: the very things that were once indispensable furtherances become obstructions; and need to be shaken off, and left behind us,—a business often of enormous difficulty.
Letter Four (16 July 1903)
Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Bishop Tonnos retires after almost three decades of service https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/2010/11/08/bishop-tonnos-retires-after-almost-three-decades-of-service.html (November 8, 2010)
“Studious of ease and fond of humble things.”
Epistle: "From Holland to a Friend in England" (1703), line 23
