Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Adventure is the champagne of life.

For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.

Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought.

He walked by instinct along one white road, on which early birds hopped and sang, and found himself outside a fenced garden. There he saw the sister of Gregory, the girl with the gold-red hair, cutting lilac before breakfast, with the great unconscious gravity of a girl.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.