Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

Man errs as long as he strives.

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.

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.