Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

Nature is a volume of which God is the author.