...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry.

Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue.

According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep enough, (and due TIME allowed!!!) must assume that state,-none can escape. All records of former worlds must ultimately perish.

Geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy.