Aaron was uncomfortable and a little afraid. This, he thought, is how God might pray to his God. ~ Ch. 1 - Sinclair Lewis

Myron reflected that there are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

He fretted that he did not know anything. He sighed, 'I have sought the Kingdom of God a little, the Squire has sought it terribly, but we haven't even a map, and after what I saw this afternoon, I know the Sioux are as barbarous as we are. Is it possible that nobody has ever known—that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years? ~ Ch. 33

She did her work with the thoroughness of mind which reveres details and never quite understands them. ~ Ch. 18