Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

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.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

The fair sex is your department.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.