If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

All is race; there is no other truth ,and every race must fall which carelessly suffers its blood to become mixed.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

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

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