When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong.