Science is the topography of ignorance.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.