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

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

It is not the church we want, but the sacrifice; not the emotion of admiration, but the act of adoration; not the gift, but the giving.

He who has once stood beside the grave, to look back upon the companionship which has been forever closed, feeling how impotent there are the wild love, or the keen sorrow, to give one instant's pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone in the lowest measure to the departed spirit for the hour of unkindness, will scarcely for the future incur that debt to the heart which can only be discharged to the dust.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.