He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture.

A man cannot deserve adventures; he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

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.