But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.