The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

Nothing is ever too good to be true.

All are sure in their days except the most wise ... He is the wisest philosopher who holds his theory with some doubt.

I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions which go to the anode of the decomposing body; and those passing to the cathode, cations; and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.

All your names I and my friend approve of or nearly all as to sense & expression, but I am frightened by their length & sound when compounded. As you will see I have taken deoxide and skaiode because they agree best with my natural standard East and West. I like Anode & Cathode better as to sound, but all to whom I have shewn them have supposed at first that by Anode I meant No way.

I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.