Liberty is worth paying for.

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

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors; but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up the globe. ... They [the Americans] are great boilermakers.

I saw the world. I learnt of new cultures. I flew across an ocean. I wore women's clothing. Made a friend. Fell in love. Who cares if I lost a wager? Queen Victoria: I do! I've got 20 quid riding on you