"I would advise you not to expect too much happiness, even from the fulfillment of all your wishes. The moment you hav…"

"The cultivation of science is a luxury of no common kind amid the bustle and vexation of life, and is quite compatibl…"

"Truth has no greater enemy than its unwise defenders, and no warmer friends than those who, receiving it in a meek an…"

"It is not easy to devise a cure for such a state of things (the declining taste for science). The most obvious remedy…"

"The human voice may be denominated the music of the mind; language, a figurative mode of expressing our ideas and sen…"

"Truths physical have an- origin as divine as truths religious, In the time of Galileo they triumphed over the casuist…"

"Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more usef…"

"Amid the destructive convulsions of the physical world, even pious minds may have for an instant questioned the super…"

"The history of the human species is the history of a variety of races in every stage of civilization and barbarism, a…"

"Although every part of the human frame has been fashioned by the same Divine hand and exhibits the most marvellous an…"