Adventure is the champagne of life.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

They hate kings, they hate priests, they hate soldiers, they hate sailors. They distrust men of science, they denounce the middle classes, they despair of working men, but they adore humanity. Only they always speak of humanity as if it were a curious foreign nation. They are dividing themselves more and more from men to exalt the strange race of mankind. They are ceasing to be human in the effort to be humane.

Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.

The past is not what it was.

Odd, isn't it, that a thief and a vagabond should repent, when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous, and without fruit for God or man?

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