In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.