The World Little Knows How

Lectures Which Really Teach Will Never Be Popular; Lectures Which Are Popular Will Never Really Teach.

Nothing Is Ever Too Good To Be True.

It Is Right That We Should Stand By And Act On Our Principles; But Not Right To Hold Them In Obstinate Blindness, Or Retain Them When Proved To Be Erroneous.

When I Consider The Multitude Of Associated Forces Which Are Diffused Through Nature - When I Think Of That Calm Balancing Of Their Energies Which Enables Those Most Powerful In Themselves, Most Destructive To The World's Creatures And Economy, To Dwell Associated Together And Be Made Subservient To The Wants Of Creation, I Rise From The Contemplation More Than Ever Impressed With The Wisdom, The Beneficence, And Grandeur, Beyond Our Language To Express, Of The Great Disposer Of Us All.

Why, Sir, There Is Every Probability That You Will Soon Be Able To Tax It! Said To William Gladstone, The Chancellor Of The Exchequer, When He Asked About The Practical Worth Of Electricity.