Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Man has his will, but woman has her way.

Science is the topography of ignorance.