If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven.