We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it.

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward ever faster and faster, stretched like a greyhound, while the windbeat in my face and whistled past my ears.

What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.