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.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Surprise is the secret of joy.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

You'll never find the solution if you don't see the problem.

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.