Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.

I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us, like the kingdom of heaven, rather than without.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

The course of true anything never does run smooth.