Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.

Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.

He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan-by faith, not by reason.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends.

Is the Master out of his mind?' she asked me. I nodded. 'And he's taking you with him?' I nodded again. 'Where?' she asked. I pointed towards the centre of the earth. 'Into the cellar?' exclaimed the old servant. 'No,' I said, 'farther down than that.