The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.