One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All

When at last in a race a new principle appears, an idea--that conserves it; ideas only save races.

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that we exist

Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.

In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful.