In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

A fact acquires its true and full value only through the idea which is developed from it.

Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic development and improvement; ... The highest economic or material interests of a country, the increased and more profitable production of food for man and animals, ... are most closely linked with the advancement and diffusion of the natural sciences, especially of chemistry.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power...it is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.