You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Facts are the images of history, just as images are the facts of fiction.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

The chief value of the new fact, is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

A wise man recognizes the convenience of a general statement, but he bows to the authority of a particular fact.