There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made.