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

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.