The world rests on principles.

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr

Verily, chemistry is not a splitting of hairs when you have got half a dozen raw Irishmen in the laboratory.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

After all, I believe it is the style of thought entirely, and the style of expression, which makes the difference in books.

I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.