To wind about my love with circumstance.

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

It is not that I doubt the gentleman’s honesty, but that I question his authority.

It was at the end of the war that this incident occurred; not at the beginning.

Uncertainty, confusion, hesitation, and other forms of doubt, are really questions,—the mind seeking solution of difficult and perplexing problems.

I wish I could find some way out of this, but—

There ought to be some other method of solving this difficulty: let me see, let me see.

I would I had been there.

Are you the owner of this house?