If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

It is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger when it is close upon you.

I have mastered the principles of several religions. They have all shocked me by the violence which I should have to do to my reason to accept the dogmas of any one of them.

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.