Nature Is Our Kindest Friend

I Happen To Have Discovered A Direct Relation Between Magnetism And Light, Also Electricity And Light, And The Field It Opens Is So Large And I Think Rich.

No Wonder That My Remembrance Fails Me, For I Shall Complete My 70 Years Next Sunday (the 22); - And During These 70 Years I Have Had A Happy Life; Which Still Remains Happy Because Of Hope And Content.

Although We Know Nothing Of What An Atom Is, Yet We Cannot Resist Forming Some Idea Of A Small Particle, Which Represents It To The Mind ... There Is An Immensity Of Facts Which Justify Us In Believing That The Atoms Of Matter Are In Some Way Endowed Or Associated With Electrical Powers, To Which They Owe Their Most Striking Qualities, And Amongst Them Their Mutual Chemical Affinity.

Since Peace Is Alone The Gift Of God, And As It Is He Who Gives It, Why Should We Be Afraid? His Unspeakable Gift In His Beloved Son Is The Ground Of No Doubtful Hope.

Ou Can Hardly Imagine How I Am Struggling To Exert My Poetical Ideas Just Now For The Discovery Of Analogies And Remote Figures Respecting The Earth, Sun, And All Sorts Of Things — For I Think That Is The True Way (corrected By Judgment) To Work Out A Discovery.