We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more.

Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.