No fame is asked by the inventor, and none is given to him; he enjoys an occupation congenial to his tastes, and needing no wear and tear of the passions.

Man must have exercise for his mind as well as body; and continuous exercise, rather than violent, is best for both.

Our most ingenious cultivators of science are, as a general rule, the longest lived and the most free from disease.

Painting is an amusement to many, but the art is not what it was in former times, when the great painters in our various communities vied with each other for the prize of a golden crown, which gave them a social rank equal to that of the kings under whom they lived.

You will thus doubtless have observed in our archaeological department how superior in point of art the pictures were several thousand years ago.
Perhaps it is because music is, in reality, more allied to science than it is to poetry, that, of all the pleasurable arts, music is that which flourishes the most amongst us.