But in some way I have missed the mark.' 'Really?
To have done it is not much to be sad about, but to feel that you have done it must be a cause of sorrow.

Am I right ?' 'Partly, though not quite.

For a sensation of being profoundly experienced serves as a sort of consolation to people who are conscious of having taken wrong turnings.

Contradictory as it seems, there is nothing truer than that people who have always gone right don't know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do who have gone wrong.

However, it is not desirable for me to chill your summer-time by going into this.' 'You have not told me even now if I am really vain.' 'If I say Yes, I shall offend you; if I say No, you'll think I don't mean it,' he replied, looking curiously into her face.
'Ah, well,' she replied, with a little breath of distress, '"That which is exceeding deep, who will find it out ?" I suppose I must take you as I do the Bible--find out and understand all I can; and on the strength of that, swallow the rest in a lump, by simple faith.