Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

"No. All they have is ideas. They immediately proceed to talk about
it, and talk and talk and talk, and with all their erudition reach no
conclusion whatever. And I am just as bad. I listen and listen, and
talk and talk, as I am talking now, and remain convictionless. There
is no test--"

"But there is," Dick said. "The old, eternal test of truth--_Will it
work?_"