The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is so, is the most glorious of all that can be demonstrated of human nature; it not only sets a great gulf of specific separation between us and the lower animals, but it seems a promise of a communion ultimately deep, close, and conscious, with the Being whose darkened manifestations we here feebly and unthinkingly delight in.

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist.

Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.