I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.