Close relation in a place like London is a personal mystery as profound as chemical affinity. Thousands pass, and one separates himself from the mass… - Henry Adams

Yet only Dominicans believe that the Church adopted this law of individualization, or even assented to it. If M. Jourdain is right, Thomas was quickly obliged to give it another form: — that, though all souls belonged to the same species, they differed in their aptitudes for uniting with particular bodies.

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them. The amusement of the pursuit was all the amusement he got from it.

All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.