God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

Whenever I did anything wrong, stupid or hard-hearted, and I have done many things that were all three, my mother always said "it is because you were too much indulged."

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

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

The man who says to one, go, and he goeth, and to another, come, and he cometh, has, in most cases, more sense of restraint and difficulty than the man who obeys him.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.