My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.

No one can help another very much in these crises of life; but love and sympathy count for something.

In fact a favourite problem of Tyndall is-Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He is confident that the Physics of the Future will solve this easily.

A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt.

A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.