💬 Quotes

"A man should not put his name to a bit of stamped paper unless he has the wherewithal to meet it when it falls due."

"Success in the world does not depend so much on merit, or even on talent, as on happy timing and connection."

"There is no purgatory so dreary as that in which a man waits for the results of his own folly."

"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."

"Mercy is not itself that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe."

"O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."

"Man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep."

"The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope."

"Truth is truth To the end of reckoning."

"To be dead upon Barsoom is simply to change one's form, to lie a bit more quietly, to dream a trifle less disturbingly than when alive."

"A man's true wealth is not measured in the things he possesses, but in the courage of his convictions and the justice of his cause."

"There are no gods upon Barsoom, save those which man has fashioned in his own image to serve his own ends of power and greed."

"Hope dies hardest in the human breast—or in that of a Martian, which is much the same when separated from those they love."

"Custom and superstition are more formidable barriers than steel walls or the fathomless deeps of forgotten seas."

"Love laughs at shackles, and the human spirit—be it of Earth or Mars—refuses to bow long to tyranny."

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

"Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."

"What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted? Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."

"A girl should have a trade. A girl who can sew is never at a mercy of anyone."

"Reading is an escape. But it's not just an escape—it's a way of finding out what you're capable of."