All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

I will go forth as a real outlaw," he said, "and as men do robbery on the highway I will do right on the highway; and it will be counted a wilder crime.

I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.

We actually love ourselves more than we love joy.