The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.
When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.
A woman who is not quite a fool will forgive your being but a man, if you are surely that. . .