America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.
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.
Only poor men get hanged.
It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.