Enthusiasm is the breath of genius.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

I think there is nothing more lovely than the love of two beautiful women who are not envious of each other's charms.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.