"Frankly, I think it would be a splendid thing for Stephen to do.

It would prove, you know, that he cared enough to make a sacrifice.

I think it would be splendid; but I think also that we are of the breed that looks too long before it leaps.

Our great adventures take place in dreams or in talk.

We like to play with forlorn hopes; but the only forlorn hope we have actually embraced is the conservative principle; and we couldn't let that go, even if we tried, because it is bred in our bone.