In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

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

Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.