Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.