It seems little to say, but if we stop to think of it, this power to read men aright and see the truth in them and about them is a power more precious than any other bestowed by the kindest of fairy godmothers.
Lodge emphasizes the importance of understanding people's true nature and character as a valuable skill.
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So Valiant-for-Truth passed over and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.
But his own personal ideals he never attempted to thrust upon the world until the day came when they were to be translated into realities of action.
No man ever prized sentiment or hated sentimentality more than he.
Some of them were the dreams of boyhood, from which he never departed, and which I have seen him carry out shyly and yet thoroughly and with intense personal satisfaction.