What hurts us worst is to have our favorite self-deceptions stripped away. — Edgar Pangborn

At one point early in his journal Dr. Bannerman describes himself as “a naturalist of the puttering type—I would rather sit on a log then write monographs: it pays off better.”

One who can define kindness only as the absence of cruelty has surely not begun to understand the nature of either.

Their door closed; presently she cried out in that desired pain that is brief release from trouble.