All science has one aim, namely, to find a theory of nature.

Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,-no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.

But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.