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Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

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I am concerned only with the proper training of the mind to encounter and deal with the formidable mass of undigested problems presented to it by the ...more

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Isn't the writing of good prose an emotional excitement?""Yes, of course it is. At least, when you get the thing dead right and know it's dead right, ...more

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this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the d...more

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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

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A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a...more

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I am occasionally desired by congenital imbeciles and the editors of magazines to say something about the writing of detective fiction “from the woman...more

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What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

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Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

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The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false statements made i...more

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If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalle...more

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Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to ...more

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I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It...more

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She had her image… and anything added to that would be mere verse-making. Something might come of it some day. In the meanwhile she had got her mood o...more

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You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a lesson to him," said Miss Hillyard. "It didn't pay, di...more