The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand.

Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.