The best way that a man could test his readiness to encounter the common variety of mankind would be to climb down a chimney into any house at random, and get on as well as possible with the people inside. And that is essentially what each one of us did on the day that he was born.

Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

In all legends men have thought of women as sublime separately but horrible in a herd.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.