If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

The Council of the Royal Society is a collection of men who elect each other to office and then dine together at the expense of this society to praise each other over wine and give each other medals.

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.