The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Opium is the only drug to’ be rely‘d on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain’d credit which they do not deserve.

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won‘t fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words ‘Eat or be eaten!’ and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude on the features of nature, that demonstrates to us, that the whole is one family of one parent.

In fact, Darwin’s own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: “All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions… and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity.”

E canchis amnia.
Everything from shells.

A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

I much condole with you on your late loss… pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;–Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.