The course of true anything never does run smooth.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

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.

Science is being daily more and more personified and anthromorphized into a god. By and by they will say that science took our nature upon him, and sent down his only begotten son, Charles Darwin, or Huxley, into the world so that those who believe in him, &c.; and they will burn people for saying that science, after all, is only an expression for our ignorance of our own ignorance.

Whatsoever we perpetrate, we do but row; we are steered by fate.

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.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.