What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.