That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.

The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.