When people talk of atoms obeying fixed laws, they are either ascribing some kind of intelligence and free will to atoms or they are talking nonsense. There is no obedience unless there is at any rate a potentiality of disobeying.

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.

An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

Men of Science. If they are worthy of the name they are indeed about God's path and about his bed and spying out all his ways.