To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

Whether a man chooses to tell the truth in long sentences or short jokes is a problem analogous to whether he chooses to tell the truth in French or in German.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.

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.