O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients considered to be a living soul in the sky, in the globes and in the stars, in the sun and in the moon.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!