Public Opinion Is A Permeating Influence, And

An Inability To Stay Quiet Is One Of The Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.

Nations Touch At Their Summits.

Nine Tenths Of Modern Science Is In This Respect The Same: It Is The Produce Of Men Whom Their Contemporaries Thought Dreamers - Who Were Laughed At For Caring For What Did Not Concern Them - Who, As The Proverb Went, 'walked Into A Well From Looking At The Stars' - Who Were Believed To Be Useless, If Anyone Could Be Such.

Women--one Half The Human Race At Least--care Fifty Times More For A Marriage Than A Ministry.

The Apparent Rulers Of The English Nation Are Like The Most Imposing Personages Of The A Splendid Procession; It Is By Them That The Mob Are Influenced; It Is They Who The Inspectors Cheer. The Real Rulers Are Secreted In Second Hand Carriages; No One Cares For Them Or Asks About Them, But They Are Obeyed Implicitly And Unconsciously By Reason Of The Splendour Of Those Who Eclipsed And Preceded Them.