It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

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.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.