No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

There is nothing so weak, for working purposes, as this enormous importance attached to immediate victory. There is nothing that fails like success.

What are we going to do?" asked the Professor. "At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific detachment, "I think we are going to smash into a lamppost.

Circumstances break men's bones; it has never been shown that they break men's optimism.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'