The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.