God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.