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.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.