...all Nature Is Perverse & Will Not

Hence, A Traveller Should Be A Botanist, For In All Views Plants Form The Chief Embellishment.

If I Had Not Been So Great An Invalid, I Should Not Have Done So Much As I Have Accomplished.

At No Time Am I A Quick Thinker Or Writer: Whatever I Have Done In Science Has Solely Been By Long Pondering, Patience And Industry.

A Novel According To My Taste, Does Not Come Into The Moderately Good Class Unless It Contains Some Person Whom One Can Thoroughly Love - And If A Pretty Woman, All The Better.

I Long To Set Foot Where No Man Has Trod Before.