I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

One's native land!?there should one live! there die!

External objects produce decided effects upon the brain. A man shut up between four walls soon loses the power to associate words and ideas together. How many prisoners in solitary confinement become idiots, if not mad, for want of exercise for the thinking faculty!

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

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

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

Anything you can imagine you can make real.