A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us. We all come down to dinner, but each has a room to himself.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.