When great questions end, little parties begin.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.

In my youth I hoped to do great things; now I shall be satisfied to get through without scandal.

One cannot make men good by Act of Parliament.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

The maxim of science is simply that of common sense-simple cases first; begin with seeing how the main force acts when there is as little as possible to impede it, and when you thoroughly comprehend that, add to it in succession the separate effects of each of the incumbering and interfering agencies.