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

Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

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.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

I said nothing of the sort.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.