The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.