O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

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

Philosophy is for the few.

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.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

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

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