The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

The laws of light and of heat translate each other;-so do the laws of sound and colour; and so galvanism, electricity and magnetism are varied forms of this selfsame energy.

The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.