I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

If you'd take your head home and boil it for a turnip it might be useful. I can't say. But it might.

Wit is a sword; it is meant to make people feel the point as well as see it.

There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

We're all in the same boat, and we're all seasick.

Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little hazy in logic and philosophy, but full of hearty enthusiasm and an honorable simplicity. He is, as he expresses it, "an old and trained engineer," and is like all of the old and trained engineers I have happened to come across, a man who indemnifies himself for the superhuman or inhuman concentration required for physical science by a vague and dangerous romanticism about everything else.