We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

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.

I am more than a devil; I am a man. I can do the one thing which Satan himself cannot do— I can die.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

The perils, rewards, punishments, and fulfillments of an adventure must be real, or the adventure is only a shifting and heartless nightmare. If I bet I must be made to pay, or there is no poetry in betting. If I challenge I must be made to fight, or there is no poetry in challenging. If I vow to be faithful I must be cursed when I am unfaithful, or there is no fun vowing.

The only people who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.