Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.