Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.