"Of the splendid constellation of great names... we admire the living and revere dead far too warmly and too deeply to…"

"Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of ha…"

"Not to feel elevated on an occasion like the present, by this noble, this magnificent testimony of approbation of my …"

"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

"What God sends is welcome."

"God knows how ardently I wish I had ten lives"

"Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive …"

"We must never forget that it is principles, not phenomena, — laws not insulated independent facts, — which are the ob…"

"To ascend to the origin of things and speculate on the creation, is not the business of the natural philosopher. An h…"

"Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one."