He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!

Man is never perfect nor contented.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten

Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?

I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.

At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.