That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.
What men of science want is only a fair day's wages for more than a fair day's work.
Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.
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.
A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.