Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Her skin was white as leprosy.