What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.

There are so many plans, so many schemes, and so many reasons why there should be neither plans nor schemes.

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.