“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

“Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.”

“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.”

“I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine... gentle yet corageous, possesed, as a cultivated as well as a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own to aprove or amend my plans.”

“I saw- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together... Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.”

“A miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.”

“The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.”