Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

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

Inspiration is never genuine if it is known as inspiration at the time. True inspiration always steals on a person; its importance not being fully recognized for some time.

When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.