"We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some …"

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of…"

"Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach s…"

"There are three great questions which in life we have over and over again to answer. Is it right or wrong? Is it true…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"England, our native country, one of the most renowned monarchies in the world, against which the Pope beareth a speci…"

"The most high and absolute power of the realm of England consisteth in the parliament: for as in war where the king h…"

"To be short, the prince is the life, the head and the authority of all things that be done in the realm of England. A…"

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind."

"Perhaps we would have forestalled [human] extinction if Louis Pasteur had abandoned his studies on the germ theory. W…"