People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.