Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs.

Invention breeds invention. No sooner is the electric telegraph devised than gutta-percha, the very material it requires, is found. The aeronaut is provided with gun-cotton, the very fuel he wants for his balloon.

England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.