Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

There is something of the same pleasure in noticing the hues of the stars that there is in looking at a flower garden in autumn.

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.