Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.