"When science is learned in love, and..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Ennui shortens life, and bereaves the day of its light.”

“Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.”

“I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.”

“There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter.”

“The most superior of scientific goals is to embrace a maximum of experiment with a minimum of hypotheses.”

“Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.”

“You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.”

“It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.”

“Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear.”