The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

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?

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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

There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.