He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Books take their place according to their specific gravity as surely as potatoes in a tub.

I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.

Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

I admire answers to which no answers can be made.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.