The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done. It’s for men to do them, and for women to reserve their love as a reward for such men.

it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire all alive in his heart to follow any which may come within sight of him, that he breaks away as I did from the life he knows, and ventures forth into the wonderful mystic twilight land where lie the great adventures and the great rewards.

“Well, Sir, anything that had adventure and danger in it. I really would do my very best. The more difficult it was, the better it would suit me.” “You seem very anxious to lose your life.” “To justify my life, Sir.”

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.

I am too imaginative to be a really courageous man, but that I have an overpowering fear of seeming afraid.