Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.
Science finds it methods.
Science surpasses the old miracles of mythology.
Science, Nature,-O, I’ve yearned to open some page.
Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant. There is not a property in nature but a mind is born to seek and find it.
A man should carry nature in his head.
Drive out Nature with a fork, she comes running back.
Everything in nature is bipolar, or has a positive and a negative pole.
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer’s boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.
Our best history is still poetry.
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
We cannot let our angels go; we do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in.
We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
The first and last lesson of religion is, ‘The things that are seen are temporal; the things that are not seen are eternal.’ It puts an affront upon nature.
A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.
The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose.
Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
The book written against fame and learning has the author’s name on the title-page.