How slow the shadow creeps: but when 'tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

Remote and ineffectual don.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not.