It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager.

An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.