Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

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.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?