Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

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.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.