Occupation: Essayist Birth: March 21, 1820 Death: September 3, 1901
We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper..
Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith..
In solitude all great things are born..
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vind….
The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose..
Life is the offspring of death..
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintanc….
Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind..
Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture..