My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.
There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.
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