“...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.”
“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
“Let us pray now for the future dead. Though we do not yet know their names, we know that there shall be far too many of them.”
“Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.”
“Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it must in some measure, but there is another cause.I believe that in these days we have too many occupations, too many interests; we know too many things, and, if you will, have too many advantages and facilities. Our faculty of taking an interest is dissipated and frittered away.”