If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.