The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
Philosophy is for the few.
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.
I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.
Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.
Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.