It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.

The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money.

Women love the last blow as well as the last word, and when they fight for love they are pitiless as a wounded buffalo.

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.