He had a curiously womanish face, and, in direct contradiction to his real character, there seemed to be little strength in it. - Isa Bowman

It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved.

When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.

He had great ideas upon the importance of a regular and almost daily visit to the dentist. He himself went to a dentist as he would have gone to a hairdresser's, and he insisted that all the little girls he knew should go too.