Saturday afternoon, although occurring at regular and well-foreseen intervals, always takes this railway by surprise.

Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

I am the very model of a modern major general

Things are seldom what they seem.

No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.