The strongest men are the most alone.

It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.