The Wealth And Prosperity Of The Country

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.

When Two Elements Combine And Form More Than One Compound, The Masses Of One Element That React With A Fixed Mass Of The Other Are In The Ratio Of Small Whole Numbers.

Nothing Tends So Much To The Advancement Of Knowledge As The Application Of A New Instrument. The Native Intellectual Powers Of Men In Different Times Are Not So Much The Causes Of The Different Success Of Their Labours, As The Peculiar Nature Of The Means And Artificial Resources In Their Possession.

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

The Progression Of Physical Science Is Much More Connected With Your Prosperity Than Is Usually Imagined. You Owe To Experimental Philosophy Some Of The Most Important And Peculiar Of Your Advantages. It Is Not By Foreign Conquests Chiefly That You Are Become Great, But By A Conquest Of Nature In Your Own Country.