Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

I have no right to think for myself. I have no right to think at all.

Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Only poor men get hanged.