Is it at all surprising that the number of those who hold the opinions of the Church in light esteem should so rapidly increase? How can that be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible?

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction.

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical condition.

Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.