Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.