Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field; wherever a mine yields its treasure; wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market; wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds; even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.