The Well-mannered Man Never Puts Out His

Life Is Made Up, Not Of Great Sacrifices Or Duties, But Of Little Things, In Which Smiles And Kindness, And Small Obligations Given Habitually, Are What Preserve The Heart And Secure Comfort.

In The Present State Of Our Knowledge, It Would Be Useless To Attempt To Speculate On The Remote Cause Of The Electrical Energy... Its Relation To Chemical Affinity Is, However, Sufficiently Evident. May It Not Be Identical With It, And An Essential Property Of Matter?

To Me There Never Has Been A Higher Source Of Honour Or Distinction Than That Connected With Advances In Science. I Have Not Possessed Enough Of The Eagle In My Character To Make A Direct Flight To The Loftiest Altitudes In The Social World; And I Certainly Never Endeavored To Reach Those Heights By Using The Creeping Powers Of The Reptile, Who In Ascending, Generally Chooses The Dirtiest Path, Because It Is The Easiest.

Consistency In Opinion Is The Slow Poison Of Intellectual Life, The Destroyer Of Its Vividness And Energy.

Nothing Tends So Much To The Advancement Of Knowledge As The Application Of A New Instrument.