We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it.

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

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.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.