I Am Young And Avid For Glory.

It Is Not Only By The Pores Of The Skin That This Aqueous Emaciation Takes Place. A Considerable Quantity Of Humidity Is Also Exhaled By The Lungs At Each Expiration.

Mathematicians Come To The Solution Of A Problem By The Simple Arrangement Of The Data, And Reducing The Reasoning To Such Simple Operations, To Judgments So Brief, That They Never Lose Sight Of The Evidence That Serves As Their Guide.

I Have Had A Fairly Long Life, Above All A Very Happy One, And I Think That I Shall Be Remembered With Some Regrets And Perhaps Leave Some Reputation Behind Me. What More Could I Ask? The Events In Which I Am Involved Will Probably Save Me From The Troubles Of Old Age. I Shall Die In Full Possession Of My Faculties, And That Is Another Advantage That I Should Count Among Those That I Have Enjoyed. If I Have Any Distressing Thoughts, It Is Of Not Having Done More For My Family; To Be Unable To Give Either To Them Or To You Any Token Of My Affection And My Gratitude Is To Be Poor Indeed.

This Theory [the Oxygen Theory] Is Not As I Have Heard It Described, That Of The French Chemists, It Is Mine (elle Est La Mienne); It Is A Property Which I Claim From My Contemporaries And From Posterity.

A Wealthy Landowner Cannot Cultivate And Improve His Farm Without Spreading Comfort And Well-being Around Him. Rich And Abundant Crops, A Numerous Population And A Prosperous Countryside Are The Rewards For His Efforts.