"And so it is that we come to the end of our journey through the periodic table not with a bang, but with a committee."

"The periodic table is the universal catalog of everything you can drop on your foot. There are some things, such as l…"

"OK, maybe being an international pop star is more exciting than the life of an element collector, but it has its mome…"

"Lawyers exist to tell you everything that could possibly go wrong with anything you want to do. The correct way to in…"

"He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fie…"

"In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of —— two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the…"

"It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so i…"

"All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either th…"

"Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fi…"

"The rose colours of madder have justly been considered as supplying a desideratum, and as the most valuable acquisiti…"