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

I am somewhat exhausted; I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

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.

Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of zoology were so little known. Is it possible that you do not know the elementary fact in comparative anatomy, that the wing of a bird is really the forearm, while the wing of a bat consists of three elongated fingers with membranes between?

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

I am not a very good man, Effie, but I think that I am a better one than you have given me credit for being.

My business is that of every other good citizen - to uphold the law.