Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.