The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new world, what kind of record would be found in them of so remarkable a phenomenon as the rainbow?

I am a majority of one.