The Ideal Life Is That Which Has

I Envy No Quality Of The Mind Or Intellect In Others; Not Genius, Power, Wit, Nor Fancy; But, If I Could Choose What Would Be Most Delightful, And, I Believe, Most Useful To Me, I Should Prefer A Firm Religious Belief To Every Other Blessing.

The Well-mannered Man Never Puts Out His Hand In Greeting Until A Lady Extends Hers. This Is A Test Of Good Breeding That Is Constantly Applied. ... The First Move In The Direction Of Cordiality Must Come From The Lady, The Whole Code Of Behaviour Being Based On The Assumption That She Is The Social Superior.

We Can Trace Back Our Existence Almost To A Point. Former Time Presents Us With Trains Of Thoughts Gradually Diminishing To Nothing. But Our Ideas Of Futurity Are Perpetually Expanding. Our Desires And Our Hopes, Even When Modified By Our Fears, Seem To Grasp At Immensity. This Alone Would Be Sufficient To Prove The Progressiveness Of Our Nature, And That This Little Earth Is But A Point From Which We Start Toward A Perfection Of Being.

Nothing Is So Dangerous To The Progress Of The Human Mind Than To Assume That Our Views Of Science Are Ultimate, That There Are No Mysteries In Nature, That Our Triumphs Are Complete And That There Are No New Worlds To Conquer.

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