I Have Learned More From My Mistakes

Natural Science Is Founded On Minute Critical Views Of The General Order Of Events Taking Place Upon Our Globe, Corrected, Enlarged, Or Exalted By Experiments, In Which The Agents Concerned Are Placed Under New Circumstances, And Their Diversified Properties Separately Examined. The Body Of Natural Science, Then, Consists Of Facts; Is Analogy,-the Relation Of Resemblance Of Facts By Which Its Different Parts Are Connected, Arranged, And Employed, Either For Popular Use, Or For New Speculative Improvements.

If I Am Allowed To Give A Metaphorical Allusion To The Future State Of The Blessed, I Should Imagine It By The Orange-grove In That Sheltered Glen On Which The Sun Is Now Beginning To Shine, And Of Which The Trees Are At The Same Time, Loaded With Sweet Golden Fruit And Balmy Silver Flowers. Such Objects May Well Portray A State In Which Hope And Fruition Become One Eternal Feeling.

The Three States Of The Caterpillar, Larva, And Butterfly Have, Since The Time Of The Greek Poets, Been Applied To Typify The Human Being,--its Terrestrial Form, Apparent Death, And Ultimate Celestial Destination.

The Ideal Life Is That Which Has Few Friends, But Many Acquaintances.

We Must Reason In Natural Philosophy Not From What We Hope, Or Even Expect, But From What We Perceive.