A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

Adventure is a sign of incompetence.

The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we practice.

Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.

False modesty is better than none.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.

I won't take no for a question.

Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.

Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting.

We have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you. No one can make that promise, because life is all about seasons, and seasons change.

I respect music, I do. I love it.