Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

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.

You can't pray a lie -- I found that out.