I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

The center of every man's existence is a dream.

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.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.