Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.

I say, you do have a heart!" "Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

Man is never perfect nor contented.

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