It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.

Anything a man can imagine, another can create

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted.

Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.

How many things have been denied one day, only to become realities the next!

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.