A man should not be made to answer for his family.
Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.
We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.
Moody had no small genius for the art of diplomacy. As a child he had known instinctively that it was always better to tell a partial truth with a willing aspect than to tell a perfect truth in a defensive way. The appearance of cooperation was worth...
you give a dog a bad name, and that dog is bad for life.
He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.
Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.
I have heard that in the New Zealand native tradition, the soul, when it dies, becomes a star.
