But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.

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.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

In art, the best is good enough.