A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to better use.

It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.

There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.