Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us.

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.