"The more one thinks of it, the funnier it becomes.

Supposing for a moment--you all take it so seriously--supposing for a moment that the food were to turn out to really have in it some of these qualities, what a mess a few days of it would make of the Stock Exchange! It would mean chaos, sir!" "It is our hope," the professor declared, sternly, "our profound hope, that this enterprise of ours will not only bring great fortunes to ourselves but will result in the moral elevation of the whole world.
There are medicines--patent medicines, too--which have cured thousands of bodily diseases.

Why should we consider ourselves too sanguine when we hope that ours, the first real attempt to minister to the physical side of morals, may be equally successful ?" Burton stole away.

In the garden he found Edith.

They sat together upon a seat and she allowed her hand to remain in his.
"I never knew father so wrapped up in anything as he is in this new scheme," she whispered.